Sony’s Executive VP Hints At Upcoming Sony Tech Focus

Sony has it’s eye on improving the player experience in their upcoming interation playstation console, and it’s looking to higher definition and sensation feedback to do the job.

Mentioned at the International Electron Devices Meeting in December, SCE’s Exec VP of Tech Masaaki Tsuruta talked about resolutions approaching 4x-8x  the current generation of HD (currently we’re at 1080, to give some comparison). These “Super HD” resolutions would have framerates upwards of 300k, which just seems insane. Tsuruta also made mention of Haptic technology, which brings touch sensing and touch feedback to a whole new level. Instead of just vibration and force feedback, Haptic can replicate sensations, which possibly means hot and cold-based feedback, reading player facial expressions, and the game being able to collect a larger variety and quantity of data from the player to later affect the player experience.

This kind of sci-fi evolution of our HD technology is absolutely amazing, and while some of it might seem too good to be true, the new breed of consoles or next-gen gaming platforms are likely to focus more on higher definition rather than power. On-Live has already shown us that streaming games can work beautifully. I wonder which of the Big Three will abandon hardware first?

Source: MCV

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