PlayStation often is the favourite within the present spherical of console wars, however that doesn’t imply it’s resting on its laurels. Sony lately launched a video sharing its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for PlayStation. This included an idea for a futuristic controller, inviting comparisons to the PS3’s boomerang.
Sony’s video imagines the way forward for PlayStation
Sony lately undertook a prototyping train it calls “Artistic Leisure Imaginative and prescient” to discover the place it is perhaps in 2034. “Ten years from now,” reads the video description, “we shall be dwelling in a extra multi-layered world the place bodily and digital realities overlap with out boundaries. If Sony, as a inventive leisure firm, can be filling the world with new Kando [a Japanese word meaning emotion] in that future, what sort of experiential worth would we offer to make that occur?”
Examples from the video embrace utilizing VR as a instrument in recreation growth and a futuristic immersive PlayStation theme park. Along with an oval smartphone, it additionally featured an idea for a futuristic controller with a holographic show. Nonetheless, its uncommon design, with two handles on both aspect of a hole ring, has led some individuals on-line to match it with the PS3’s boomerang controller idea.
For anybody who doesn’t keep in mind, the boomerang was a crescent-shaped controller idea included within the reveal of the PlayStation 3. It by no means obtained additional than a mockup, with Sony’s focus teams preferring a extra standard design.
The idea proven within the video seems rather more fragile than the boomerang. The obvious impracticality might be as a result of the video was extra in regards to the concept of Sony in 2034 reasonably than pitching particular merchandise. That stated, it will be an enormous deal if PlayStation might really make a controller that tasks sci-fi holograms.
