PS5 Controller Will Track Your Heart Rate and Sweat Secretion, Suggests Patent

[anastiel]

Another patent has been filed by Sony which could potentially hint at new features coming our way as part of the next-generation, this time around focused on the PlayStation 5's controller. Biofeedback could be used to modify game experiences through sensors that would track your heart rate and sweat secretion.

Reported by Respawn First, sensors found within the two grips of the controller could adjust a user's experience based on how quickly their heart is beating and how much sweat their hands are producing at any one time. Presumably, this would lead to a game's difficulty being lowered should the player allow for it. As Video Games Chronicle mentions, this is at least the third time such a feature has been referred to in Sony patents.

PS5 Controller Will Track Your Heart Rate and Sweat Secretion, Suggests Patent

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[Neoxon]

I feel like this is one of those ideas that they just patent just in case but not use right away. I'm not sure if they'd add this to the PS5, but it would be interesting to see how they use it.

 

[Lukar]

The vitality sensor lives-- with Sony! Betrayalton!

 

[AndrewDean84]

No it won't.

 

[ClickyCal']

I feel like these vitality sensor things are forever just stuck in pantents and never happen.

 

[NekoNeko]

take that 12TF

 

[PSOreo]

Sony, please make these threads stop.

 

[Serene]

People read too much into patents sometimes

 

[Kthulhu]

I feel like these vitality sensor things are forever just stuck in pantents and never happen.

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Same. Even if it does make it in I doubt a lot of 3rd party devs would take full advantage of it.

 

[giancarlo123x]

People read too much into patents sometimes

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Im still waiting for "McDonald's!"

 

[Raccoon]

patents don't suggest shit

 

[Lukar]

I feel like these vitality sensor things are forever just stuck in pantents and never happen.

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Eh. The Joy-Con can measure your heartrate using the IR sensor. Ring Fit Adventure uses it.

 

[Darryl M R]

Sony making a "Sweats only" lobby. Now this is next gen.

 

[Capra]

Kojima's over in the corner feverishly working real-time sweat detection into his next game

 

[Godzilla24]

All I see is feature creep on controllers = more expensive. Wonder how much this is gonna cost if all these patents turn out to be true.

 

[Aurongel]

FTFY:
PS5 Controller Could* Track Your Heart Rate and Sweat Secretion, Suggests Patent

 

[spad3]

Didn't the Wii have a heart rate sensor or something? I could've sworn I remember a device called the Vitality Sensor or something

Either way, I'd rather have a DualShock V that splits into a Move-style controller for PSVR2 than heart-rate/sweat sensor

 

[Fuchs]

Man, Knack 3 is going to be something special

 

[Duxxy3]

I doubt it'll happen. It's just more useless crap on a controller.

 

[Thardin]

Didn't the Wii have a heart rate sensor or something? I could've sworn I remember a device called the Vitality Sensor or something

Either way, I'd rather have a DualShock V that splits into a Move-style controller for PSVR2 than heart-rate/sweat sensor

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It was shown off, but never actually released.

Has become meme.

 

[VaporSnake]

Headlines from 2026: "PS6 controller administers beta blockers via microneedles when heart rate is elevated"

 

[Iwao]

It sounds like Sony is really pushing for the immersion angle, even if not all their patents go into the end product. I'm at least very much looking forward to the next generation in haptic feedback.

Either way, I'd rather have a DualShock V that splits into a Move-style controller for PSVR2 than heart-rate/sweat sensor

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This was a dream of mine from a while back, but I doubt that's happening.

 

[Empyrean Cocytus]

I live...

 

[funky]

Does Sony have a weird guy at the Dualshock team that just has to get his dumb shit in every generation even though everyone knows its a dumb waste of money?

 

[BrickArts295]

I can't think of a good enough reason to use it outside of horror games.
Maybe you play a tough game like Bloodborne and the difficulty dynamically decreases or increases depending on your heart rate XD

 

[SanTheSly]

 

[808s & Villainy]

More like Sony has an idea for tracking heart rate and sweat secretion, suggests patents. People really need to stop taking these things as evidence of actual features

 

[Deleted member 18379]

I kind of feel like we get rumors like this every gen. At the end of the day, they have to be cheaper than their competition and those off the wall features are the first things that get axed from the idea board.

 

[Taker34]

Im still waiting for "McDonald's!"

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Rumor has it that if you shout "McDonald's" 3 times in a row at your TV at midnight, Jim Ryan will appear behind you and whisper the PS5 reveal date in your ear.

 

[Derachi]

Pffft no it wont

 

[Devil]

Seems useless tbh. A quick heartbeat can mean many things while gaming and shouldn't be interpreted by the game to tamper with the difficulty etc.

 

[Bomblord]

How about no? That's just outright creepy.

 

[RingRang]

Sounds like a silly feature and waste of money to include something like this.

 

[Gero]

Its just a dumb patent, means nothing

 

[trioptimum24601]

Valve was experimenting with this stuff years ago. I think they had some build of L4D that guided the game director AI based on your biometrics. But yeah pretty much all the big players have probably tried something similar in R&D.

 

[Deleted member 437]

I can't wait for no one to use this.

Should be exciting.

 

[Castform]

I just wish the PS5 controller would have a solid battery life.

 

[Mirage]

Kojima's over in the corner feverishly working real-time sweat detection into his next game

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He did say he wanted to do a horror game.

 

[Imitatio]

That thread title... Bah.

 

[Deleted member 45130]

No it won't.

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I came to post the exact same thing. No chance.

 

[Sleve McDichael]

Just another weird patent that will never see the light of day.

 

[Tawpgun]

I don't need FROM Software to try fucking me over even further.

 

[IIFloodyII]

Could be cool for VR. But doubt it'll lead to anything.

 

[Midas]

Rumor has it that if you shout "McDonald's" 3 times in a row at your TV at midnight, Jim Ryan will appear behind you and whisper the PS5 reveal date in your ear.

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BRB.

Edit: not midnight yet. 😞

 

[brinstar]

when are we getting smell-o-vision

 

[Ragnorok64]

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You beat me to it.

 

[Lukemia SL]

I often patent things just to make sure no one goes wild and creates silly things.

 

[cnorwood]

Yeah this is definitely for VR, I've gotten many non gamers into VR for the thought of exercise alone.

 

[Aurica]

Glove gamers win again.

 

[Friskykillface]

Sounds like a gimmick to not make PS4 controllers BC, Microsoft already said current Xbox one controllers work on the new system so I hope Sony follows

No light and a great battery life is all I want if we have to use new controllers