A lately revealed patent from Sony reveals that the corporate continues to look into NFTs and the blockchain, this time with a patent that explores a way of utilizing and buying and selling NFTs throughout platforms.
“NFT Framework For Transferring And Utilizing Digital Belongings Between Sport Platforms” is the precise title of the patent, described within the summary as “Programs and strategies are disclosed for figuring out {that a} first end-user entity has carried out a activity inside a pc simulation for which a non-fungible token is to be offered, the place the NFT is related to a digital asset.”
“Conscious of the willpower, the NFT is offered to the primary end-user entity in order that the digital asset could also be used, through the entities for their very own use throughout totally different simulations and/or platforms.”
Drawings from the patent present containers of textual content which are supposed to appear as messages to gamers, with NFTs being offered as awards for the participant who doubtlessly was the primary one to beat a boss or the ultimate boss of a brand new recreation, or just simply discovering a bit of unique loot and being awarded the NFT for it.
In fact, like all Sony patents, simply the truth that it exists, doesn’t imply Sony will really put it to make use of. Many gamers nonetheless increase an eyebrow in concern once they hear ‘NFTs’ or ‘blockchain’ round their video games.
The extent of that sentiment would possibly simply be sufficient for Sony to make this one other patent it leaves unused.
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