Sony's motion-tracking controller tracks true 3D

Session being held at Develop

Sony has been demonstrating its new PS3 motion controller at the Brighton Develop conference, which they originally unveiled at E3.

Furthermore, Sony promised to display "a lot more of the controller" than was shown at E3 as well as "several real-world examples of such techniques as used in recent and soon to be released PS3 and PSP titles from both Sony Computer Entertainment first party and external developers."

The new tech, which works in conjunction with the PlayStation Eye camera is still at the prototype stage, so photography was only allowed at designated times and not during the event itself.

Consisting of two wands - one with a purple light on top, the other a red one - the controller tracks 3D movement via the PS3 camera and can show the player on-screen holding any object, whether it's a sword or a baguette.

"It doesn't resemble the final unit as such," said head of developer services for SCEE, Kish Hirani, who also played through the first E3 demo claiming the wands were "very, very responsive."

As ever, we'll have more as we get it.

Source: Kotaku.

By Richard Walker