Sony has been late to the party on most things this generation, but the platform will be damned if it won’t try to compete with absolutely everybody. Not content to follow Nintendo with its own Wiimote, Sony has revealed that the PSEye will be taking on Microsoft’s Project Natal thanks to some natty facial recognition software. To be fair though, at least Sony started the whole Natal stuff with its EyeToy shenanigans.
Head of developer services Kish Hirani claims that his team has got “a wealth of libraries available” and that many experiments have been undertaken by SCEE R&D to get this all working. “It’s a lot of fun in the office,” he claims.
Looks like the age of gimmickry and gadgetry has descended upon the world of videogames. There’s all sorts of interesting and/or stupid technology being thrown at there at the moment, which prompts the questions … how many of these things will end up long-forgotten on junk-filled flea market tables in ten years’ time?
