Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Shai Messingher

Richard B Stenson

A glove interface object, including: a flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of a finger portion of the glove interface object; a trackable object configured to be illuminated during interactivity, the trackable object being positioned at a wrist portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand rendered based on the identified finger position pose, the computing device identifying the trackable object from captured image data to track a location of the glove interface object; wherein the virtual hand is rendered at a location in the virtual environment that is substantially defined by the location of the glove interface object.

Glove interface object with flex sensing and wrist tracking for virtual interaction

A glove interface object is provided, comprising: at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of the glove interface object; at least one contact sensor configured to generate contact sensor data identifying a contact between a first portion of the glove interface object and a second portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data and the contact sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, the finger position pose being applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand being rendered based on the identified finger position pose.

Glove interface object

Planar magnetic headphones include a single layer of parallel elongated magnets spaced from each other and supported on a magnet holder matrix. The holder matrix can be plastic or it can be a metallic permeability plate, with the magnets being on the inside (toward the ear) of the plate. Inboard of the magnets is a plastic dampening matrix that supports a first continuous disk-shaped dampening membrane. A serpentine circuit trace is established on a thin diaphragm that is outboard of the magnets to excite the magnets and move the diaphragm to produce sound according to the current in the trace. Still further outboard of the circuit race and positioned against a hard plastic outer cover is a second continuous disk-shaped dampening membrane. A circular pattern of holes is formed through the outer cover.

Planar magnetic headphones

A system is provided, including a head-mounted display (HMD) and glove interface object. The HMD includes a viewing module having a view port into a screen configured for rendering image content that defines a view of a virtual environment, the image content being generated from execution of an interactive program by a computing device, an HMD communications module for receiving the image content from the computing device, an image processing module for processing image data received from the computing device for rendering the image content on the screen. The glove interface object includes at least one pressure sensor configured to generate pressure sensor data identifying a pressure applied to at least a portion of the glove interface object, and a glove communications module configured to transmit the pressure sensor data to the computing device for processing to be applied to a rendering of a virtual hand in the virtual environment.

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Shai Messingher