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GDC: Controlling Infamous: Second Son With Your Eyes | IGN

What if you could play Infamous: Second Son without ever touching DualShock 4's right analog stick? One of IGN's Senior Editor just that, and it's totally awesome.

After you’ve spent a long time in the games industry like IGN's Colin Moriarty has, trade shows tend to become predictable affairs. He has attended many E3s, a couple of Gamescoms, and even a Tokyo Game Show, and they’re all pretty much the same: a glut of games on show floors and behind-closed-doors to play and write about.

Having beaten Second Son this past weekend, he wasn’t looking to play the game in demo form, but there was something special about this particular setup. Affixed to the PlayStation 4 was an SMI camera. And this SMI camera, as he was about to find out, was going to let him control Infamous: Second Son with his eyes.

PoSTedUP4454d ago

woah... this is definatly the eye-tracking son was working on with NASA. i wonder if they will use it in P.Morpheus... that would be something else. Sony is Epic.

Fishy Fingers4453d ago

The camera is actually created by SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and Sony have been toying with their tech for sometime http://m.prnewswire.com/new...

Still, impressive as it appears I wouldn't expect to see it outside of R&D for sometime. Certainly wouldn't be included in Morpheus as the cameras in their current form are already to expensive for consumer devices.

starchild4453d ago

Yeah, I saw this on The Verge and in that video he still used the controller to control the left thumbstick movement and the powers, etc. The eye tracking replaced the right stick camera control.

PoSTedUP4453d ago

ah true. i read sony was working on eye tracking with nasa a few months back. still rad tho, +bubs fishy.

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redcar1214453d ago

People say the kinect spy on you but a inside source i met said to me the ds4 as scan ten of thousand of people finger prints and sold them to usa goverment

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GTgamer4453d ago

What material on that controller even gives you a hint of scanning :/.

TheTowelBoy4453d ago (Edited 4453d ago )

Off topic: A: I've never believed that MS has a super secret pact with the NSA so they can stare at the USA and the rest of the world as they eat Doritos, and sit playing games. B: The DS4... Honestly, I don't even. "throws hands in the air"

Ron_Danger4453d ago

Hey redcar, I'm a Nigerian prince... Wanna make some fast money??

And the bait is set..........

BattleTorn4453d ago

by that logic they already have all our finger prints from every mouse-track pad....

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Darth Gamer4453d ago (Edited 4453d ago )

After being trained for years through playing games all the way back as far as the Atari 2600, I would find this incredibly weird and I would have a very hard time keeping my unused thumb off of the other analog stick. Might as well cut that bitch clean off cause it would constantly be getting in the way.

TheTowelBoy4453d ago (Edited 4453d ago )

Well see with this setup it allows for your thumb to do other things. Yes, we've all been trained the last few gens, almost in two demensions. Left stick- movement, rigbt stick- camera. All this MIGHT do is allow another dimension of gameplay, or control into the mix with freeing up your left thumb. Potentially ;)

HighResHero4453d ago

I'll stick with traditional "thumb tracking" unless we are talking about VR implementation.

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The 10 Best Superhero Games To Play Right Now

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inFamous 3: Is PlayStation Working On A Second Son Sequel?

Fans of the action-adventure franchise have been eagerly awaiting news of a potential sequel to one of the best games on the PS4.

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-Foxtrot681d ago

They really need to

Go off the evil ending off Second Son

Delsin absorbs all those powers

Revealed he’s the real Beast and John in Infamous 2 was just an anomaly created by timelines being messed with by Kessler.

Cole vs the Real Beast

gold_drake681d ago

quite honestly, i dont remember a whole lot about 2 amymore, but i absolutely hated the guy in second son haha.

chicken_in_the_corn680d ago

It would make more sense to go off the evil ending of 2 and the good ending g of SS where Cole is The Beast.

Cacabunga679d ago

Doesnt make any sense calling second son 2 as infamous 3..

OtterX680d ago

Ha, yea Delsin was obnoxious.

I wouldn't mind another new character, but somehow bring Cole into the story.

We can just pretend like Delsin never existed. :)

thejigisup680d ago

Everyone that age is obnoxious. It's been years and is like to think delsin has grown

neutralgamer1992680d ago

Until we wait for a potential new entry it would awesome to have infamous collection for PS5

RaidenBlack680d ago

Umm ... how about this?
First we get the Tushima sequel(coz its most rumored)
Then a new Resistance (need new PS SP FPS)
Then a totally new IP (new IPs are always interesting)
And then a new inFamous?

Pepsi_Man3000680d ago

resistance is insomniac I think

xHeavYx680d ago

Can we also get a complete remaster of InFamous 1 and 2?

fr0sty679d ago

Gimme a new Warhawk and MAG while we're at it.

DivineHand125680d ago

I had a great time with the second son. Never got to play the originals and hope they get remastered one day.

DazaMc680d ago

The graphics were amazing, I got the platinum on that one. Very good.

ChasterMies680d ago (Edited 680d ago )

If I had a choice between another Infamous game and another Spider-Man game, I choose Spider-Man. Sony should spend its resources on its winners.

Tacoboto679d ago (Edited 679d ago )

Infamous was such a winner its studio was given the freedom (after 3 titles + their expansions) to do a new IP with GoT, just like with Sly Cooper before infamous.

I'd welcome a 4th title even more than another Spider-Man, it'd be exciting what they could do with new powers fit for the hardware outside the limits of a licensed superhero game.

jznrpg679d ago

Spider-Man is guaranteed and is made by Insomniac so why not both as Sucker Punch would make Infamous.

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