jeudi 20 septembre 2012

Sony Announces PlayStation Wonderbook

By Shaine Murray


Sony has announced its brand new PS Wonderbook Augmented Reality platform at E3. The folding, book-like gadget is surely an Augmented Reality pad that functions together with the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Eye and also PlayStation Move motion controller to give superimposed computer graphics above the picture from the Wonderbook and consumer within the Tv. Targeted for an educational instrument for youngsters, the device will kick off with J.K. Rowling's Book of Spells.

The guideline behind the Wonderbook will be acquainted to Nintendo 3DS users who have fought with all the AR Cards shipped together with the gadget. The 3DS's constructed in camera pick up the image printed about the card, and also analyze from its visible size and therefore viewpoint the relative position of the gaming system and user. The 3DS superimposes computer photographs to the card when considered the 3DS's screen, nearly as if the screen were a window.

The Book of Spells game showed for the gadget utilised PlayStation Move controls like a makeshift magic wand which to toss spells from your Harry Potter world. Judging by the demo, this appears a rather significantly less widely setup for AR versus 3DS, being the consumer is required to search at a Television the whole time - the PlayStation Wonderbook device itself is almost a necessary evil. One wonders, being the dimension of the big hardback children's book, when the gadget truly requirements to be very so substantial.

Sony was on rather safer ground introducing Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls, efficiently an unofficial sequel to 2010's Heavy Rain with a mocapped Ellen Page as Jodie Holmes, a type of young blend of Richard Kimble (fantastic needed fugitive) and even John Edward (generally revered medium). Quantic Dream, chances are you'll recall, were also liable for your Kara PlayStation 3 tech demo we looked into in March. Ellen Page, or possibly at least an eye-catching if unofficial digital likeness of her, also cropped up in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us (consider Uncharted plus zombies).

A tryout of God of War: Ascension at the same time impressed though Assassin's Creed 3 spin-off Liberation was obviously a welcome statement for PlayStation Vita, which has a lady playable protagonist in a sequence first. PlayStation 3 and also Vita cross-compatibility was demo'd in alike of Sony's answer to Super Smash Bros, PlayStation AllStars: Battle Royale (just 1 of the many games on demonstrate in ominous requirement of a colectomy) with users to the E3 stage enjoying a multi-player match from each a PlayStation 3, Vitas and also PS4.




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