PlayStation would be the favourite within the present spherical of console wars, however that doesn’t imply it’s resting on its laurels. Sony just 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 just lately undertook a prototyping train it calls “Inventive Leisure Imaginative and prescient” to discover the place it may be in 2034. “Ten years from now,” reads the video description, “we can 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, could 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 embody utilizing VR as a software in recreation improvement 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. Nevertheless, its uncommon design, with two handles on both facet 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 bear in mind, the boomerang was a crescent-shaped controller idea included within the reveal of the PlayStation 3. It by no means acquired additional than a mockup, with Sony’s focus teams preferring a extra typical design.
The idea proven within the video seems to be rather more fragile than the boomerang. The obvious impracticality might be as a result of the video was extra concerning the thought of Sony in 2034 quite than pitching particular merchandise. That mentioned, it might be a giant deal if PlayStation may truly make a controller that tasks sci-fi holograms.