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It’s emerged that, in 2010, Sony submitted a patent showing controller technology similar to that set to be introduced by Nintendo with its Wii U console.

The title of ‘Position-Dependent Gaming 3-D controller’ is given in , along with a description noting interactivity with objects on the screen whilst acting as a controller.

“Methods and systems for using a position of a mobile device with an integrated display as an input to a video game or other presentation are presented,” reads the main description. “Embodiments include rendering an avatar on a mobile device such that it appears to overlay a competing user in the real world.

“Using the mobile device’s position, view direction, and the other user’s mobile device position, an avatar (or vehicle, etc.) is depicted at an apparently inertially stabilized location of the other user’s mobile device or body. Some embodiments may estimate the other user’s head and body positions and angles and reflect them in the avatar’s gestures.”

A number of different methods and uses are then mentioned, but no hints as to whether or not it’s anything to do with a games console – just that it’s a mobile device of some sort.

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