Another day and another patent gets dragged kicking and screaming into the public realm; Microsoft has their own ‘magic wand’ ambitions.
This piece of tech can interpret ”orientation or gesture” from the device, much like the Nintendo Wiimote. That motion-sensing 360 camera is looking all the more real suddenly.
”The architecture can utilize one or more sensor from a collection of sensors to determine an orientation or gesture in connection with the wand, and can further issue an instruction to update a state of an environmental component based upon the orientation,” reads the patent filing.
Who at the corporate giant co-signed the bit of red tape? Well, it was none other than the current big chief of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, James E. Allard.
Apparently though this has been in development since the summer of ‘07, but in fact was dropped in favour of a device-less method of motion gaming, i.e. the motion-sensing camera. Will E3 just get its rear here already and end this endless cycle of whispers?!
Source: Engadget
