Sony Investigates Laughter as a Controller
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Assuming this will be used for games. It could just be used to get more data during in-house testing after all. Really this information could be rather handy for developers to know, if you are trying to get emotional responses from the players would not not bee good to know if it worked?WanderFreak said:
Yep how dare those people have any emotional involvement with the games they are playing. You sure showed them what fools they are.mspencer82 said:
This is a new way that Sony can collect information on how much they can charge for their console. If laughter goes up, they charge more for the system. If laughter goes down, the price goes up with Sony claiming that if you don't get our jokes you can pay more to hear the "good" ones.
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hmm, they could use it when your watching movies and then give you a statistic over which movies according to genre are your favorites, no more saying that some artsyfartsy movie whit ironic jokes is the best comedy ever, we have proof you like weekend at bernies 87% more .
but i doubt any one but me would be interested in seeing statistics over every single human feeling and what causes it, god i love statistics.
but i doubt any one but me would be interested in seeing statistics over every single human feeling and what causes it, god i love statistics.
I'm pretty sure I could play supreme commander with the amount of laughter that I got from this thread.
Wow, Sony win the "Attempt to make a controller like nintendo" award and the "make an exceedingly annoying and arbitrary control system" award.
See Yahtzee, a controller made of fruit is actually an optimistic expectation (as well as actually being a terrible idea).
See Yahtzee, a controller made of fruit is actually an optimistic expectation (as well as actually being a terrible idea).
You know what I think would be cool; a device similar to a mood ring that you can wear just the same. It could make games that feature silent protagonists more a better experience. Imagine your emotions being portrayed in the game, creating varied responses from NPCs and other thing depending on your state of mind.
Frankly the less my electronics know about me, the less paranoid I feel.
In all seriousness, having some computer/game device track your emotions doesn't work outside of concept because there's that little thing called "life" that interrupts your leisure time. Let's say the game/presentation/thing is on and the device is keeping track of my reactions, then I get called away by my spouse to do the dishes, or the cat jumps onto my lap. I seriously doubt Sony's tech will be able to factor in all those details, and assumes the viewer/player exists in a vacuum where nothing happens but the game and your reactions.
In all seriousness, having some computer/game device track your emotions doesn't work outside of concept because there's that little thing called "life" that interrupts your leisure time. Let's say the game/presentation/thing is on and the device is keeping track of my reactions, then I get called away by my spouse to do the dishes, or the cat jumps onto my lap. I seriously doubt Sony's tech will be able to factor in all those details, and assumes the viewer/player exists in a vacuum where nothing happens but the game and your reactions.