Sony has filed a patent for a glove controller

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Perhaps Nintendo's notoriously bad 1989 peripheral the Power Glove was actually nearly three decades ahead of its time as Sony has recently filed three patents on its own glove controller.
As spotted by NeoGAF user Rösti, the patents in question would be comprised of a flex sensor to track finger positions, a contact sensor to note if you're touching anything, and a communication module to send data to a head-mounted display so that a virtual representation of the user's hand would be represented in the VR headset.
The claim goes on to describe "a trackable object that is configured to be illuminated during interactivity," "at least one inertial sensor for generating inertial sensor data", a communications module "configured to receive haptic feedback data", and "at least one pressure sensor configured to generate pressure sensor data".
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