While they don’t necessarily mean much on their own, companies’ patents can sometimes afford fans a close look at some developing and/or upcoming technologies that may or may not see the light of day, sometimes years down the line. In Sony’s case, specifically, the company seems to have a bunch of ongoing projects, and one of them concerns the translation of gamers’ emotions in real-time, using none other than their virtual avatars....
Sony Open 2023: Tournament and course description The Sony Open was first played at Wai’alae Country Club in 1965. Just outside of Honolulu, the classic course was designed by famed golf architect Seth Raynor in 1927. The course is defined by angled fairways, an excellent variety of par-4’s, eighty-three bunkers, and five holes where water is in play. The course is a par-70 layout stretching 7,044 yards. The scorecard shows twelve Par 4’s, two Par 5’s and four par-3’s....
Filed with the US Patent & Trademark Office on November 21, as first spotted by RespawnFirst, the Sony patent in question is for a technology called “scene tagging.” What that is, according to the patent, is a means to “characterize user generated content associated with gameplay information associated with video games.” In other words, screenshots and video captured by players. While that may sound more current-gen than next-gen, screenshot/video-capturing is just part of the system described in the patent....
The patent in question is for a PlayStation 5 VR Tracking Controller, a completely reinvented controller compared to the current PSVR’s Move controller. Like with modern PC VR controllers, the new PS5 controllers shown in the patent come in a set of two so that there’s one for each hand. Each features a grip with buttons and a joystick for the thumb, as well as buttons on the back for the index finger....
title: “Sony Playstation Vr Review Decent Console Vr Elevated By Great Games” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-25” author: “Diane Ramirez”
The update also brought one small cosmetic change, altering the name of Automatic Download to Automatic Update. On the PS Plus side of things. players can look forward to one oft-requested feature - auto syncing trophies. If a user has the Automatic Update function turned on then their PS3 will automatically sync their trophies at a pre-determined time. As well, to make the lives of PS Plus users just a tad easier, Sony has implemented the option to automatically upload saved data to the PSN Cloud....
The specifics of Sony’s success have, however, been the subject of much discussion up until now. While some PlayStation PC port sales numbers were readily available beforehand, Sony’s latest announcements provide much-needed context on just how successful the company has been in this regard. RELATED: PS1 Games on PS4, PS5 Have a Big Downside Video game analyst Benji-Sales has just posted about Sony’s latest briefing, where the company revealed that it’s expecting extremely substantial PC growth for the next fiscal year....
PS Plus has been a Sony console staple for more than a decade, and spans two console generations. The initiative proved so successful with gamers that Microsoft launched Games With Gold for the Xbox 360 just a few years later. In the years since, longtime subscribers have amassed large libraries of free games across multiple platforms. As such, there has been some concern over how exactly Sony plans to incorporate PS Plus into its PS5 launch plans....
In Sony’s tweet about Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, the caption interestingly features the sentence “the award-winning series continues” as opposed to “the award-winning series concludes,” indicating that the franchise could still continue. This could simply be a choice of wording made by Sony, which also occurred for the marketing for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End when the tagline “one last time” was changed in favor of emphasizing the game as being “the closing chapter for Nathan Drake’s story....
It will likely provide more concrete information on Sony’s next-gen hardware since the unsurprising logo was revealed at CES. Along with the predictable name and logo, Sony has also previously confirmed the PS5 will use an AMD Ryzen CPU and a custom AMD GPU which together will be able to output 8K@120fps. If the PS5 releases this year, which it is fully expected to do, it will come nearly seven years after the November 2013 launch of the PS4....
Frequent Symptoms The symptoms you have with a sore throat depend on the cause. The throat discomfort itself may take these forms: Scratchy sensation Pain that is usually worse when you talk or swallow Difficulty swallowing Swollen glands or tonsils Raspy voice; difficulty talking Respiratory infections or nasal drainage into the back of the throat are the most common causes of a sore throat. With them, you are likely to have one or more of these symptoms along with a sore throat:...
While we know where to buy it, and would love to tell you how you could nab the very same case as the character, it appears that the item is already sold out. And it’s an even bigger bummer because it was shockingly affordable. For those who haven’t seen the show, the phone case looks like a DS-100 camera and even has a strap that allows users to hang the phone conveniently around their neck....
Turns out, that’s the first and last time college football bettors will be treated to cover alerts. According to SportsBusiness Journal, the overt reference to the betting line “generated howls of protest from university executives.” The decision to pull the cover alerts, though, came before ESPN even heard the protests, network executives told SBJ. “We did it once. I didn’t like it, and we stopped it,” said John Wildhack, ESPN’s executive vice president of programming and production....
Heading into the 2016 Rio Olympics with their largest ever contingent, hopes were high that Indian would surpass the tally of six medals achieved at the 2012 Olympics. However, it proved to be a disappointing campaign with only badminton player PV Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik returning with medals as other much-fancied athletes wilted under the pressure of expectations. While cricket enjoys wide backing from the sponsors as well as the sponsors, no doubt helped by the success it has achieved on the field over the years, the 44-year-old believes that BCCI has done a commendable job in setting up facilities all across the country that has helped aspiring youngsters hone their skills in the game....
The background Indian wicket-keeper batsman, MS Dhoni has been away from the cricket field ever since New Zealand knocked India out of the 2019 World Cup. Dhoni has taken a break from international cricket and in his absence, the selectors have handed the wicket-keeping responsibilities to Rishabh Pant. With the selection committee so high on Pant, the fans feel that the Jharkhand-born gloveman would never come back to play for the Indian team....
The target of multiple MLS teams for a move ahead of the 2017 season, Corona was ready to make the move north, but will now stay in Mexico after signing a new multi-year deal to stay with the club that has owned his rights for his entire professional career. Corona helped lead Dorados de Sinaloa to the Liga Ascenso title earlier this month, completing a solid campaign on loan with the team that shares owner ship with first-division Club Tijuana....
And, in the process, no matter how much talent that player might have, there will be leaks that hit those of us on the media on just why Team X or Team Y does not think the star player is all he is cut out to be. That’s basic negotiation, of course. You don’t walk into a Toyota dealership and announce how much you’re dying to own a Prius. You walk in and say gas mileage isn’t all that important....
Bafana Bafana will enter in the quarter-finals as they hope to march onto the semi-finals. Under the guidance of coach Stuart Baxter, the 1996 African champions will be hoping to dispatch the Barea who have done well so far. Along with Zambia, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, the hosts were seeded for the competition and have studied their opponents as the Group A completed their assignments on Thursday. Having selected a youthful squad, Baxter has put emphasis on winning the tournament to ensure that his men get used to winning as he wants continuity up to major tournaments....
When the end of the sports boycott in the early ’90s allowed the country’s teams to compete internationally for the first time in decades, he recalled in one NEWSWEEK interview, South African fans thought their favorite soccer teams would blow away the African competition. It was a shock when, in the first outing, Zambia humiliated the visitors. The lesson? That the country’s isolation had given fans an unrealistic view of their teams’ strength....
