Using a banana as a video game controller

[Eldorado]

Sony has invented a bizarre system that would allow people to use household objects like bananas to control video games.

The Japanese technology business recently applied for a patent that would allow it to use cameras to detect handheld objects so that video games could be played by holding them.

A camera strapped to the player’s head, potentially as part of a virtual reality headset, could detect whatever item is being held, such as a banana, an orange, a mug, a pen or a glass.

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[jethrofloyd]

Banana Piano

 

[Tatetopa]

Many years ago, young people learned to make hash pipes out of carrots. So why not bananas as game controllers?  Hope we aren't going down a slippery slope.