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Sony (NYSE: SNE) gave an exhibition to an interested audience of its Move motion controller for the PlayStation 3 console at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Together with the Move, Sony will release the Move sub-controller, a one-handed controller that resembles with the Nintendo Wii "nunchuck" and is an optional accessory for few games.





Sony said the Move and its sub-controller will be launched in major countries this fall. It says 35 game publishers and developers have signed up to support.


The Move platform consists of the Move motion controller; the sub-controller; and the PlayStation Eye camera, a device that's already available.

The Move motion controller "delivers unmatched accuracy through a three-axis gyroscope, a three-axis accelerometer, and a terrestrial magnetic field sensor" as well as a color-changing sphere that the PlayStation Eye camera tracks visually, Sony said.

The system detects both swift and subtle motions ranging from swinging a tennis racket to painting with a brush. Users can provide direct input through action buttons and an analog trigger while receiving physical feedback from what Sony calls "rumble functionality."

Users will get visual feedback from different colors displayed by the system. The PlayStation Eye camera will also capture the player's voice and image to enable an augmented reality experience. In other words, you'll be in the game and outside of it at the same time -- in your mind, at least.

The Move sub-controller comes with an analog stick and direction buttons. It has a built-in lithium ion rechargeable battery and Bluetooth capability.

PlayStation 3 owners can substitute Sony's DualShock vibration-feedback gamepads or its SixAxis controllers for the Move sub-controller.

Sony has not yet decided on the price.

The latest version of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) InterNet Explorer will feature maximum hardware acceleration & a new Javascript engine that involves multiple processor cores for faster rendering, the company has announced. The new version also reverses the application giant's reluctance to alter to HTML 5.

The company released a developer preview of IE 9 at the MIX10 developer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

It is designed to give developers and engineers a feel for the core capabilities of what will finally be released.

The preview does not contain all teh features which lacks crucial tidbits such as an address bar, for instance.

The new version will feature highest hardware acceleration of graphics & text, support for HTML 5, CSS3 & a new Javascript engine that takes advantage of multicore processors.

Microsoft does not reveal when it will come out. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said it expects to release new preview versions every six weeks until the release goes to beta, but it did not say when that might occur.

The advances are being well received by developers, Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish told TechNewsWorld.

The advances are meant to reduce limitations on Web design & development imposed by current implementations, Microsoft said. Consequently, the new browser won't work on Windows XP.

Early Praise

By moving to hardware acceleration, IE9 will enable faster rendering of animations & video, allowing developers to generate beefier Web-sites that software-based rendering schemes could not handle, he noted.

"They're looking to regain a leadership role here & to dazzle developers by showing their commitment to HTML 5 & its potential," he said.