Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan earlier confirmed that the company has yet to reveal the major features of the PS5. A new document filed by the Japanese gaming giant is now attracting gaming enthusiasts because of its unique technology that could be in the PS5. The patent talks about a music-generating technology that could create soundtracks using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Potential PS5 Major Feature
The patent was filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 22, 2020, and describes a new technology that generates music specially developed for the gaming experience. The new system creates background music based on the actual things happening in the game. The patent is titled "Dynamic Music Creation in Gaming and reveals the crucial role of AI in achieving this impressive feat.
As explained in the Sony document, the AI has an outline to develop a piece of new music while the game is played. It particularly focuses on the emotions the game is conveying to the player, the characters in the scene, as well as the current location of the player. It also notes that artificial intelligence could consider the personality of the gamer while creating the game's soundtrack.
How Is This Possible?
Based on the Sony document, a virtual fader is responsible for collecting all these various aspects of the gaming experience, including emotional factors. It adds that musical components that come with virtual faders would be mapped against tangible and larger factors of the game. It includes the characters involved and the gamer's location in the game.
The soundtrack produced would be tested on reviewers and would be enhanced to match the gamers' emotional response to their personal gaming experience. While the patent describes the hows and whys of the music generating system, it never reveals specifically where this new technology would be used. However, it states that it would be used for gaming, which excites PS5 fans in the assumption that it would be one of the major features of the upcoming next-generation gaming console.
Other PS5 Details
The Japanese gaming giant has been assuring fans about a line up of interesting features and technologies for the upcoming PS5. The graphical prowess of Sony's next-generation gaming console was recently showcased at a tech demo of Unreal Engine 5 of Epic Games. More features and advanced specs could reveal at the highly awaited PS5 official console reveal.
Sony recently confirmed at its earnings report that the PS5 is still on track to its holiday 2020 release window.
