Sony has filed a new patent describing a new Playstation 3 controller the employes "hybrid video capture and ultrasonic tracking."
According to the patent filed, the system will track the movements of "one or more" controllers in a 3D space. "The ultrasonic tracking system analyzes sound communications to determine the distances between the game system and each controller and to determine the distances among the controllers", reads the patent's abstract. "The distances are then analyzed by the game interface to calculate the depths within the capture area for each controller."
The new controller comes in as a pair of ice cream cone-like devices that can be attached together in a variety of positions. One configuration that utilizes an add-on buttons plate resembles the Dual Shock controller, while other configuration, that has 2 controllers connected back to back, resembles Nintendo's famous WiiMote.
