At some point, every console noob struggles to line up that perfect shot with just a pair of joysticks. Sony may have found the answer to that problem: eye tracking.
In a video released just at about the time of the PlayStation 4 launch last week, executives at Sony's R&D department, the Magic Lab, showed off the technology—currently billed as an "experiment"—in a video posted to GameTrailers. Sony executives have billed the PS4 hardware as "supercharged," with a scheduled ten-year lifecycle.
Sony launched the PS4 last week, and the reviews were, in a word, limited. Since so much of today's entertainment world takes place online, reviewers felt that evaluating the games and services required some time to allow the user and development community to grow. To foster continued interest in the platform, Sony appears to be preparing to upgrade the PS4 at some point in time.
GameTrailers.comSony's eye tracking, in action.
It's reasonable, then, that with such a long life, that Sony will either tweak the hardware itself, the firmware, or add in new peripherals. And Sony offered a peek under the hood of what it's working on.
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