The Sony press conference is held in conjunction with the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) which focuses on gaming systems and interactive entertainment, featuring introductions to new products and technologies.
NASA has been sending robots to space in lieu of human astronauts, but has encountered difficulties controlling them from Earth.
Enter Sony's PlayStation VR hardware, which NASA is now using as it tries to figure out a better way to control their robots, but this time with human input.
Having "Sony", "VR" and "space robots" in the same sentence would lead many to assume the context must relate to a PlayStation game.
Being NASA of course, the VR demo does take the delay into account by allowing the operator to see a ghost resemblance of their hands moving without the delay, while the robot's hands are reflected shortly afterwards. The program, which runs on a PlayStation 4, lets an operator use a PlayStation VR headset to view the environment and decide on the next course of action based on the robot's real-time situation.
The green shadow shows the time delay between the operator and the robot's hand. Sony's software guides users to compensate for the time delay by way of a shadow on screen. "However, even in our simulation, there are a still a number of problems to solve".
In the meantime, NASA experts are still learning how to operate the robots more efficiently, as well as develop ways to reduce the lag as much as possible. In essence, it gives the operator the chance to practice controlling a humanoid in space, like how to do a task or move around objects. Has it helped restore your faith in PlayStation VR?
Source: canonplace.com
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