Sony announces Move.me application for researchers and hobbyists with promise of improvements to PlayStation Home.With Move.me, Sony Computer Entertainment America to offer award-winning PlayStation3 Motion gaming technology to universities, research labs and hobbyists.Move.me is a software server application for the PS3 system that uses the PlayStation Move motion controller as an input device……….
Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) unveiled Move.Me, a software application that academics, researchers, students and hobbyists can use to create new types of software applications using the PlayStation Move motion controller as an input device on their own PCs, all via the PlayStation3 (PS3) system.Launched in fall 2010, PlayStation Move delivers the most precise and intuitive motion control gaming experience on PS3 with the PlayStation Move motion controller which features internal motion sensors and utilizes additional tracking from the PlayStation Eye camera. With the Move.Me application, the high-quality, high-level tracking data that PS3 game developers use can be exported to the PC, providing a powerful tool for creating innovative applications.
The Move.Me project could help medical researchers prototype, for example, rehabilitation applications for patients undergoing physical therapy. The Move.Me application could also lead game design students to develop new creative concepts for gaming within the areas of 3D modeling, motion capture, and augmented reality. The application is compatible with any Windows or Linux-based PC; other devices such as tablets and smartphones can also receive PlayStation Move‘s tracking data if they can connect to a PS3 system.“PlayStation Move’s camera-plus-controller combination allows for the most precise and immersive gaming experiences,” said John McCutchan, senior engineer, SCEA Developer Support. “Now we’re formally taking that advanced technology, which was almost ten years in the making, and offering it to innovators outside of our traditional game development community so they can create their own applications to impact the world in exciting new ways.”
Move.Me application will be available for download from PlayStation Network this spring. As part of an early product seeding program in the United States, a handful of prestigious researchers and professionals in the medical, academic and human-computer interaction fields have already expressed interest in creating innovative applications that leverage the unique motion-sensing technology offered by PlayStation Move.SCEA will support the Move.Me application with sample code, user documentation and corporate material from SCE Research and Development. The Move.Me application will not require the PS3 system SDK or a licensing agreementwhich opens the door for wide-spread idea generation and prototyping.
