This is the first thing I found about the Revolution Controller.

The patent in question is called Interactive electronic game having gyroscopic output effect and was issued in the year of 2000. By the first look at the topic it really does not seem interesting and to have any relation to the Revelution controller but first impressions sometimes proove wrong.

I will start by posting the abstract of the US patent I found:

"An electro-mechanical device for providing an input to a computer program and said computer program providing a tactile output through said electro-mechanical device to a user. More specifically, the present invention provides an electro-mechanical virtual sword game apparatus that receives positional information from sensors on the sword apparatus and the sword apparatus contains a propulsion gyrostat that under the control of a computer process may be topple to provide a torque on the housing of the sword apparatus that may be used to simulate the impact of sword blows."

What this basically states is that there will be a controller that looks like a sword and which has rumble effects when the sword hits something ingame. Nothing special and no resemblance to the Revolution Controller at first sight, but then I read on:

"Yet another feature of the present invention is to use sensors, e.g., a receiver and/or a transmitter, on the sword apparatus and an array of sensors, e.g., receivers and/or transmitters, external and/or internal to the sword apparatus to determine the spatial attitude and/or location of the sword apparatus. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the sword apparatus uses infrared blasters, e.g., high output infrared transmitters such as those found on modern universal remote television controls, to output a pulse and/or timed emission of infrared light which may then be received at the remote sensors, which in the preferred embodiment are infrared receivers, whereupon the timing and/or phase differential of the received signals may be used to triangulate and determine the spatial position of the sword apparatus. An infrared output at both the top and the bottom of the sword apparatus may be used to determine the attitude of the sword apparatus and is within the scope of the present invention."

This states that the sword controller can have sensors on it so that it will be accurately detected in space and that its movement will be made in the game. The technology will be infrared. Now this sounds already alot more like the Revolution controller, the only difference is that the Revelution Controller uses Bluetooth technology. But since the patent was issued in the year 2000 it is acceptable that they talked about infrared. The other problem is that the Revolution controller does not look like a sword at all, it looks more like a TV-Remote. Now read the next part:

"It is understood that the sword apparatus of the present invention may not need a blade but the blade may be represented in the virtual space in the game itself. This may be done either on the computer screen or through the use of virtual reality glasses and/or other display apparatus. Thus, in the virtual reality domain, the computer may generate a sword blade that appears to extend from the hand held sword apparatus of the present invention. However, a plastic blade and/or other ornamental blade extending from the apparatus is within the scope of the present invention. "

It is stated that the controller does not have to be a sword, but just a handle. The sword blade can be either ingame or put on the handle virtually using 3D technology and glasses. This sounds very much like the Revolution controller. An so sword games will be probably very similary like it is stated in the patent.

Imagine yourself swinging the Revolution Controller and the ingame sword will do the same. Of course now you say this is nothing new, we heard this before. But remember how it says something about 3D technology? There is a rumor, that there is a new kind of 3D technology where you do not require glasses to see 3D objects outside the screen. The patent says that a virtual blade can be made ontop of the controller. Now that would be really nice. It would be like your actual swinging a sword. As a last note I leave you with this:

"In another embodiment of the present invention, other virtual representations of the virtual instrument that is representative of the object held by the player or within the scope of the present invention such as a gun, bazooka, knife, hammer, axe and the like and the gyrostat propulsion instrumentality of the present invention may be controlled accordingly to provide the appropriate feedback to simulate the virtual instrument. For example, in the gun and/or pistol embodiment of the present invention the gyrostat feedback means may be used to simulate events such as the "kick" from a gun, or the "crush" of a hammer blow."

The controller does not have to be a sword, it can be alot of other things, all using the rumble effect. Imagine that the Revolution controller is able to create the 3D experiece for those objects. Thats something nice to look forward to.

We do know for a fact that the Revolution Controller will have sword games on it since we have seen this in the official nintendo commercial, but we do not know how those games will exactly look like or how they will be played. The patent gives insight into that and I hope that this has given some information on how it can be.

The patent also already descriped how sword games using a controller with sensors can be made, putting the rumble technology into use so that its very life like and that you have trouble hitting walls and leaving the game space.

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Thank you for reading and come back sometimes for different rumors and post some comments if you want to.

Disclaimer:

All of the above does not relate to any official comments and/or things said in interviews by Nintendo officials or Revolution Controller creators.

All of the above is based on my own research on and analysis of US patents.