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Nintendo Patent Application(s) - Handheld device with infrared camera/distance sensor
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Pimpbaa
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Hasn't this thing been rumored to be both a console and a handheld system, or at the very least just a handheld system? Of course it's going to show a device with a screen and controls on it.
I actually want this. Wario patents Wario Ware but someone beat him to it, so now he must fight the patent trolls to win back his series.
True. The drawing just looks scarily like a Wii U gamepad
Gold.
SinCityAssassin
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It's been rumored as a lot of things, I hear the NX will prepare you breakfast every day using the latest in cutting edge technology.
I would buy if I could give Mario the finger.
Sword Of Doom
Member
I've been wondering about this technology on phones and tablets. Tired of wiping fingerprints off my screen
Honestly, I wouldn't mind getting a video game console that doubled as an actual theremin.
AndyMoogle
Member
Wouldn't this solve the whole resistive vs capacitive touch screen talk? Resistive touch screen plus this might give us the best of both worlds. If it works properly that is.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Metroid NX will consist of Samus blowing you kisses. You have to catch all the kisses before Adam takes away your weapons.
Metroid Prime: Kiss or Diss
Metroid Prime: Kiss or Diss
Graphics Horse
Member
oh sure, me too! I'm just wary of it being used too much if it requires letting go of half of the system/controller, outside of a Wii style controller that is not ideal.
Index finger tracking while you're holding it might be a useful application, if it can work at very short distances.
Davey Cakes
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I think it's cool that Nintendo is batting around ideas like this.
Waylon Drums
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Except in America. She's just give you a thumbs up here.
Graphics Horse
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I remember when the ps4 dev controller leaked I was wondering if it had a leap motion type tracker in it. The news it had clickable part took care of what I was most interested though, a way to seperate 2d gestures and a 3rd dimension input.
That was fast lol
Pop-O-Matic
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Nintendo's Voltroning all of gaming's bad ideas into one. Next thing you know it'll come with low-res, red-only VR goggles to play all of your always online FMV games on.
Akhe
Member
Lmao
Orbit_shadow
Neo Member
The QOL will mark Nintendo's return back to the industry it once dipped in... By providing non-wearable tech to Japanese love hotels.
The other patents I liked and I found interesting. This one doesn't really make me think about anything that I could actually enjoy.
Hand gestures towards your handheld while you're holding it with the other hand? Sounds tiring and unnecessary. It could make sens towards a fixed point (but that would be Kinect) but towards a device that you carry around and you use mostly by holding into your hands seems redundant and not very user friendly.
Hand gestures towards your handheld while you're holding it with the other hand? Sounds tiring and unnecessary. It could make sens towards a fixed point (but that would be Kinect) but towards a device that you carry around and you use mostly by holding into your hands seems redundant and not very user friendly.
pinkurocket
Member
This is probably not gonna be much more than the 3DS' Face Raiders or AR things I bet, if it actually makes the cut for NX. Though I'm intrigued Nintendo got this patent, seems like a technology that we've already seen on like Kinect and stuff. I guess it's a different way of achieving the same effect.
jabberwocker
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so did they just try to patent holograms?
LordOcidax
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That Nathan Drake hand....
Bear Force One
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#iconic
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
Old
I remember that thing, did not work at all.
Tatsumi Oga
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But wait..... Last year there was an interview with Miyamoto where he said he would be taking a backseat with the whole NX thing.
Whatever the case, it's a good thing I'm not expecting anything from Nintendo. I'll just take the wait and see approach.
Fourth Storm
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Pixart Imaging, Nintendo's partner on the Wii Remote IR tracker, has already demonstrated such a product. The Digitimes rumor names Pixart as providing a component for NX as well, so it's quite possible.
AndyMoogle
Member
Horrendous input lag in that video though.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Is that a good thing for the hardcore gamer though? Wii wasn't exactly great for them.
I hope they improved the lag on that thing.
Also it seems to be the wrong horse to bet on. This tech would rather work well together with VR not with a handheld.
You got me with this one, heh.
Oh mein Gods. That actually sounds like fun. Patent art should be used in a game somewhere
Hahaha. Classic
Hmm. That certainly lends to the possibility of nx implementation. But can they fix the input lag and make it dirt cheap? I also can't imagine the "projector" being cheap either