Patent reveals PS3 will use ‘anything’ as the controller in the future

It looks as if Sony has pulled a similar thing to Microsoft’s Project Natal but with a major difference that the Japanese company’s version uses everyday objects as the controllers. A new patent filed by Sony shows that any three dimensional object in the real world could act as a controller for a PS3 game. The controller works in tandem with Sony’s EyeToy camera that first needs to be registered with the console and can be done by rotating and scanning the object to save it for future use.

This patent actually is an interesting one because it was just a month back when they unveiled their LED equipped Wand controller and also opined that “some experiences need buttons”, which won’t be clearly in this case.

[Via Siliconera]

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