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Gaming => Console Chat => Topic started by: retro_killa on April 17, 2009, 01:35:57 AM

Title: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: retro_killa on April 17, 2009, 01:35:57 AM
OK, it’s only a patent, so don’t let your head spin too much just yet, but Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has filed a patent that would turn your PSP into a device that could see and control a small car remotely.

The car has a camera mounted atop its hood and video feed can be seen
 on the PSP. The car and PSP would communicate via a wireless link. You may be wondering why anyone would want a camera on top of his or her remote controlled car. Well, according to the patent, “a user may control the car… so as to spy on their friends… then upload the stored video images to a website.”

Among other specifications, the car has the ability to create “augmented
 reality zones,” which are areas outlined with virtual markers that players physically place. If a car leaves the zones, it freezes, safely allowing one to build a racetrack near, say, a flight of stairs.

This is only a patent and most patents don’t see light, so don’t go planning any Christmas lists just yet. Still, it's definitely an interesting direction Sony could go with its PSP if they followed through.

(http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/rdonlyres/B644845B-5BB7-4720-A9D5-6AF4234A3107/18187/pspcar1.jpg)


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Title: Re: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: riffraff12000 on April 23, 2009, 06:31:02 AM
Dude, this gets me one step closer to my ultimate goal. An army of robots controlled by my psp.
Title: Re: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: Adam Bomb 669 on April 23, 2009, 11:10:14 AM
I control mine with an atari 2800. and they are better!
Title: Re: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: willplayer on April 23, 2009, 06:26:49 PM
lol now this is pretty cool ...
Title: Re: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: riffraff12000 on April 23, 2009, 06:44:48 PM
Wait, paddle or joystick controller?
Title: Re: Sony Patents PSP Remote Controlled Car
Post by: Adam Bomb 669 on May 11, 2009, 10:02:30 AM
I use the joystick, you can use the pong paddle but theres no reverse.