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Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology
howman writes "Reuters is reporting that Sony has been granted 2 patents, both describing 'Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human neural cortex'. These are patents 6,729,337 and 6,536,440. The patents go on to 'describe a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images'. The story was first broken by New Scientist magazine." Commentary also available via Ars Technica.
I'd keep an eye on Sony if I were you...
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So, any bets as to which pornographer Sony will be suing first? ;-)
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Looks like they are already working on the PS9, Hopefully they can reach the launch date of 2019.
I Can't wait to play that wipeout like game they had in the commercial!
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Well first off, first post? Second, Isn't this a little far-fetched? Why patent something that probably won't be possible for a long time? How do they even know it will BE possible? Or is this already in beta? :D
Is this a belated april fools?
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At least with sound they don't have to stick a heavily wired icepick into my brain.
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See technology is already passing Sci-Fi up.
Telcos have alot of dark fibre in the States. Most people assume that's optical fibre...but it's actually moral fibre.
...to make The Matrix game seem fun to the user
-- lol pwned
You mean the first third is good, whilst the rest is shit?
Interesting patent idea.
If sony can patent this, then I wanna patent say, the genetic code of clifford the big red dog.
...you're going to shoot what now? At my brain???!
I'll grant you, it's not really doing much else, so it could, in a pinch, substitute for a targetting dummy. However, as I am firmly attached to it, this seems like an idea who's time will never come.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
You cant patent a teleporter, Sony patented it years ago.
Seeing goatse and tubgirl are bad enough. But, Smells??!
You'll need to be brainwashed just to feel clean after that.
given the way things are goin they may come up with some home or personal device with voice recognition, and then you'll just have to say "Patent teleporter" and you're done
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You watch -- it'll be used for porn and spam injected directly into your brain -- and I barely have room left for the voices.
Ian Ameline
Time to patent my time machine so that I can prevent others from going back in time and patenting it before me.
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Never mind a few fatalities, what about the volume of users going blind from all of the Porn and ummmm resulting activities?
Homer: Facts are meaningless, you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true!
Wheres my "Woman in the red dress"???
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
As far as feeding my neural cortex with sensory information, my body parts do a good job of that.
I'll volunteer my sexual organs as prior art.
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Scarrrrey...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
but now im a little suspicious
i always wondered what that expansion brain slot was for...
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There is no patent...