PlayStation 5 controller could measure your heart rate, Sony patent suggests

It’s one among the foremost eagerly anticipated gaming consoles of 2020, and now a replacement patent has shed light on the PlayStation 5 controller.

A patent filed by Sony indicates that the controller could track your ‘biofeedback’ while you game.

It was first spotted by Respawn First and suggests that the controller will have technology in its grips.

Respawn First explained: “The sensor on one or each side of Dualshock 5 grips are getting to track electrodermal activity (sweat secretion) and heart-rate.

“The biofeedback will then be employed by the PlayStation 5 to form adjustments to a user’s gaming experience. How exactly will this happen and what changes we will expect is unknown.”

The patent also indicates that the feature would work with the computer game, which suggests Sony is getting to take its VR experiences up a notch.

While Sony hasn’t previously mentioned this feature, it's already revealed two key features for the PS5 controller.

In a blog last year, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, explained: “There are two key innovations with the PlayStation 5’s new controller.

“First, we’re adopting haptic feedback to exchange the “rumble” technology found in controllers since the 5th generation of consoles.

“With haptics, you truly feel a broader range of feedback, so crashing into a wall up a racer feels much different than making a tackle on the gridiron. you'll even get away for a spread of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.

The second innovation is some things we call adaptive triggers, which are incorporated into the trigger buttons (L2/R2).

“Developers can program the resistance of the triggers so that you are feeling the touch of drawing a bow and arrow or accelerating an off-road vehicle through rocky terrain.

“In combination with the haptics, this will produce a strong experience that better simulates various actions. Game creators have begun to receive early versions of the new controller, and that we can’t wait to ascertain where their imagination goes with these new features at their disposal.”