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I believe that you will find this interesting... https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126 https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126 Video game controller havin
by Arjuna 13y ago
I believe that you will find this interesting...
https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126 https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126
Video game controller having user swappable control components
Original Assignee: Valve Corporation
Abstract:
A game controller is provided. One or more main control input interfaces on the game controller consist of generalized sockets. A variety of modular input interfaces can be plugged into these sockets. Hardware specific to the input type of the modular input is contained within the modular input itself, and plugged in via an interface. This allows for dual analog sticks, a combination of analog and trackball, or further any combination of touchpad, directional pad, or additional components.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 13y agoOther fun Value patents: Player biofeedback for dynamically controlling a video game state: https://www.google.com/patents/US20110009193 https://www.google.com/patents/US20110009193 - Responsive play Dynamically providing guest passes for a video game: https://www.google.com/patents/US20080234043 https://www.google.com/patents/US20080234043 - Steam Sharing?
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThis is why I love HN. Were you randomly looking up Valve-assigned patents and happened to stumble on this?
- Arjuna 13y ago"This is why I love HN." Thank you... same here! I'm just very interested in the game industry (and a lot of other fields). I tend to R&R (Read and Research) a lot! -- Edit: Valve Corporation patents, for those interested: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=%22Valve+Corporation%2C+Washington%22 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=%22Valve+Corpo...
- sudoscience 13y agoI don't know of R&R and a search comes up empty...anyone have a link?
- VikingCoder 13y agoIt's not a technology. It's how that user describes spending their time. Like, "RTCHN - Responding To Comments on HN"
- JonnieCache 13y agoIt's also a pun - R&R would normally stand for "rest and recreation."
- shardling 13y agoHardly a HN exclusive. :) From 2012: http://kotaku.com/5890372/is-this-valves-control-pad-design/ http://kotaku.com/5890372/is-this-valves-control-pad-design/
- AYBABTME 13y agoIt was posted here too. What's cool in this case is that user X asks about the relevance of P, and user Y comes up with many months olds news on Q that happens to be the perfect missing piece in the puzzle. This stuff happens all the time. Why is R this way? CEO of R Inc. comes up to tell you. Why is S not in space? It just so happen that a engineer from the space program is reading the comment and answers with a detailed insightful post. When that happens, HN is awesome.
- jypepin 13y agothat's awesome! good find!
- CatMtKing 13y agoI'll bet this will be their 3rd announcement.
- vastinfest 13y agoA bit of a crappy pattent. Already been done: http://www.madcatz.com/mlg/ps3_controller.htm http://www.madcatz.com/mlg/ps3_controller.htm
- kuwahara 13y agoThat's not really the same.
- anonymous 13y agoWhy not just buy two-three gamepads with different layouts? Surely that would be cheaper and easier!
- mseebach 13y agoYou're right. That's what leads me to guess that they have significantly more than 2-3 layouts in mind. Imagine selecting your weapons physically as well as in-game before going on a raid with some gamepad-plugins offering better control over in-game weapons or accessories than others.
- chromaton 13y agoBenHeck had invented this as far back as 2007, 2 years before this patent was filed.