Sony Wants Gamers to Sit Up Straight
A newly published patent revealed that Sony wants gamers to sit up straight while playing. Everyone has had someone tell them to straighten their back after a long day hunched in front of the TV, and now it seems that Sony might want to join in on the action.
It can be easy to forget the dangers of sitting with an unhealthy posture, especially when there are battle passes to complete, but gamers are no strangers to the kind of back pain that can follow these intense sessions. Thankfully, Sony has a few ideas on how to curb these issues. The patent was filed a few years ago but was released today, and now that PS5 consoles should hopefully be a lot easier to get ahold of, Sony could have the chance to straighten the backs of millions of players — that is if this feature ever sees the light of day.
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Sony wouldn't be the first company to try its hand at tackling the posture problem. After all, there's a whole industry built around making sure players are sitting comfortably, but only so much can be done with chairs. The patent's abstract talks about how this potential feature would use the controller to analyze a player's movement and use that data to provide solutions for improving their posture, like giving a friendly reminder to take a break or sit up straight. It seems that that patent primarily intends to mitigate the stress injuries that repetitive motions could cause.
“A game intervention server may evaluate, based on learning models, posture, and physical motions for players for repetitive, unbalanced, or excessive motions, as well as gameplay quality patterns, and compare to thresholds for identifying unhealthy conditions.”
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