PSP IR port

[Halcyon]

Hey guys and gals, I have a US PSP 1001. It has an IR port on the top of it and I never really noticed it was there until recently. Does anyone know if anything ever happened with this? Was it supposed to be implemented into some add on?


I took a quick Google search but didn't really find much.


If you got any ideas on what you can do with it let me know.

 

[Nintendo]

It wasn't well supported by SONY themselves, but homebrewers did wonders with it, for example...A universal TV remote or even ir keyboard support.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zD9dc0x-lqo?feature=oembed

 

[Kajayacht]

The only non-homebrew thing I know of that the IR port was used for was to beam pictures to other PSPs.


One homebrew game I remember basically turned the PSPs into sort of a laser tag type game, pretty fun. Another one I remember was a pong-type game where you bounced the ball between two PSPs (kinda hard to explain)