Folks over at IGN have discovered a patent recently filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment that allows audience members to participate in virtual reality content.
The technology is explained in the illustration above, which shows a VR user receiving messages informing him that spectators are ?now voting? and ?have given you a soup ladle.? The audience will be able to join players with ?spectator devices,? which are presumably mobile phones, tablets, etc. According to Sony, this will ?augment the VR scene based on the spectator inputs in response to the interactive content of the audience participation content.?

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