Sony is to use... chip implants?

[rjensen11]

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-957881.html

Chip implants--game plan for Sony?

By Vivienne Fisher
ZDNet Australia
September 13, 2002, 11:13 AM PT






In the run up to the launch of PlayStation 2, Sony set out its ultimate vision for gaming technology. In a series of commercials run in the United States, the PlayStation 2 was hailed as a step in the evolution of the surgically implanted PlayStation 9 controller, tipped to hook up to the a transparent glassy globe which is the console through the retina.
With a launch date set for sometime around 2075, Sony has a good deal of time to iron out the technical and ethical issues surrounding such a proposition.

"The premise is that the PlayStation 2 is the beginning of a whole new evolution," Patrick Lagana, product manager for hardware and peripherals at Sony computer entertainment Australia explained. "There are all kinds of questions from an ethical point of view, and it is hard to see at this stage how they will release it, but the direction is clear."

In the meantime however, games console and peripherals vendors are focusing on providing ever more immersive technologies, enhancing the gaming experience through improved graphics, voice recognition, force feedback features, movement capturing technology, broadband connectivity and movement capture devices.

"Over the next couple of years we are going to see an even bigger jump in the quality of the graphics than we saw in the last generation of consoles," said Andrew Carter, vice president of development at games developer and publisher Infogrames Melbourne House. "Games graphic are not necessarily going to become more realistic, but they will certainly become more fantastic."

Although Carter is enthusiastic about the prospects of bio-interactive games, he believes it will take a lot of work between the console developers and medical scientists before any such device could get off the ground.

"The limitation there is more medical understanding at this stage," Carter said. "A lot of games could work fantastically well with that kind of interface."

Wha?

 

[RVDNuT374]

PS9's coming out tommorrow. It said on the news.

 

[F1man]

wha?!?!?

 

[MistaX]

Yep, thats a bunch of crap, like the 48 Cyl Viper that Dess once posted in the automotive forum.

 

[DessViperV-10]

Originally posted by MistaX
Yep, thats a bunch of crap, like the 48 Cyl Viper that Dess once posted in the automotive forum.

 

[F1man]

Originally posted by DessViperV-10

 

[whitez]

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Originally posted by whitez

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by whitez

oke:

 

[space]

What a hoot

You guys havent heard about this yet?

even though its dated yesterday, there have been versions of it floating around for a while.

There was even a internet commercial for it.

 

[Acid X]

Hmm.. Never know, this actually MIGHT happen :|

Thatd be pretty cool but i wouldnt go n get surgery so tat i can go play some game through my eyeball O.o

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by gt2_gs
Hmm.. Never know, this actually MIGHT happen :|

Thatd be pretty cool but i wouldnt go n get surgery so tat i can go play some game through my eyeball O.o

Yeah, the resolution probably wouldn't be worth it. And how'd you connect everything? 802.11a?

 

[viperguy]

Cool :shades:

 

[km]

it could happen someday just like we never thought we would have the internet but look at it now think about it

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by km
it could happen someday just like we never thought we would have the internet but look at it now think about it

What do you mean we'd never think we'd have the internet? It started as a military communications device, but then later was used by Apple(I remember hearing people talk about the internet on AppleIIe's) and then it gradually worked its way into what it is now. As far as I'm conserned, we've had it for a long time, and only really knew about it after it'd come.