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Throwing Tomatoes At Hugh Grant's Face Has Always Been A Personal Aim Of Ours.

Have you ever been watching a movie, wishing it was theatre so you could throw tomatoes at the actor’s face? You watch too many Hugh Grant movies, then. But seriously, that’s exactly the premise Sony have developed in a new Playstation 3 patent.

The patent actually reveals numerous interactions, which sound a bit like Microsoft’s Netflix Party system personified.

“For example, avatars displayed to a user, in response to user gestures in the real world, e.g. in response to manipulation of a game controller or other such expedient, may toss tomatoes that stick to the actor’s face or bounce off the actor’s face and roll along a table that appears in the movie or television show.”

That’s not all though. The patent also reveals plans to allow your avatar to virtually kick the behind of a movie character or toss spiders at them:

“In FIG. 4A, one audience member (35a) has a game controller or other such device that is used to shoot at the spider. Other audience members may passively view the presentation. As an actor walks through a scene in the media presentation, the virtual spider moves with the actor, and also moves up the actors back to bite the actor in the neck.

In FIG. 4C, the audience member 35a has shot at the spider and hit it. This is indicated in this embodiment by the spider exploding 49. Because the spider was hit (and the actor spared the fate of having his neck bitten), the score 40 of the audience member is incremented. Thus, Gary’s score is incremented to 111.”

It’s unclear how these ideas will be implemented. Perhaps they are to be a new feature in the Playstation Home theatre. All we know is that it all sounds kinda ridiculous, pointless and awesome all at the same time.

See the full patent over at Siliconera.