PlayStation interns turned the ‘Minority Report’ touch gloves into a reality

You don’t get something like PlayStation VR without a lot of experimentation. And sometimes the origins of those experiments are as obvious as you think they are.

The PlayStation Magic Lab research-and-development team has built dozens of hardware and software prototypes over the years, and one of those includes the weird touch-control glove that Tom Cruise’s character John Anderton uses to interface with his computer system in Minority Report. In a discussion at the GamesBeat Summit event in Berkeley, California, today, Magic Lab boss Richard Marks talked about how these ideas turn into consumer products after beginning life in his workshop.