Creepy, laughter-tracking PS3 patent has us rethinking Sony's whole PlayStation Eye strategy

Don’t they know people look at these things? A recently awarded PS3 patent includes this harrowing “FIG. 2,” which portrays a fictional idiot laughing at some “Crazy Inventors” programming, while the PS3 tracks Mr. Laugh’s every movement and sound through the PlayStation Eye. The brooding, spiteful console could theoretically pick up on different moods like sadness, excitement, joy and boredom — before presumably changing up action onscreen to quell that pesky uprising of “emotion” in the subject.

[Via Joystiq]

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