That picture you are linking too is some fanmade photochop and has nothing to do with reality...AFAIK the FIRST time we have had them show what the control looked like was just at TGS...all other times it has been in Dr. Richard Mark's hands. As well...I think SONY was careful at TGS to never say that this a final design.
In May (the same time frame as your referenced fan art...) the following patent was 'found': http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/images/sonywand-728-75.jpg Does that look similar to what we just saw at TGS?
And yes...those are TSCX buttons on the remote.
Sony has to have a ball for the EYE to pick up the depth information...you can do it with a flat front and just LEDs but calculating depth would be alot harder. With the ball if you are swinging the wand you can track through the full motion...if it is just leds on the front of the remote...the EYE would loose the ability to track as you moved through the motion. There is a patent of such a device though...although I'd think this is more like the nunchuck part of things if you don't want to use a SIXAXIS. http://www.slashgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ps3mote.jpg The EYE picks up the difference in the size of the ball as you move into or away from the camera. They have experimented with smaller ball, one at each end, as another approach.
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That picture you are linking too is some fanmade photochop and has nothing to do with reality...AFAIK the FIRST time we have had them show what the control looked like was just at TGS...all other times it has been in Dr. Richard Mark's hands. As well...I think SONY was careful at TGS to never say that this a final design.
In May (the same time frame as your referenced fan art...) the following patent was 'found': http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/images/sonywand-728-75.jpg Does that look similar to what we just saw at TGS?
And yes...those are TSCX buttons on the remote.
Sony has to have a ball for the EYE to pick up the depth information...you can do it with a flat front and just LEDs but calculating depth would be alot harder. With the ball if you are swinging the wand you can track through the full motion...if it is just leds on the front of the remote...the EYE would loose the ability to track as you moved through the motion. There is a patent of such a device though...although I'd think this is more like the nunchuck part of things if you don't want to use a SIXAXIS. http://www.slashgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ps3mote.jpg The EYE picks up the difference in the size of the ball as you move into or away from the camera. They have experimented with smaller ball, one at each end, as another approach.