Sony Research

Sony as a company has existed since 1955. It specialised in transistor radios and has been an electronics development and production company since its beginnings. It moved into the console gaming world in 1986 with a deal with Nintendo to produce a CD Drive for the SNES. The deal fell through in 1991 and Sony went on to develop its own Console to compete against Nintendo and Sega. They came out with the Playstation (PSONE, PSX) in 1994. The name was a reworking of Play Station, the name they had for the CD Drive add-on for the SNES. Since then Sony has continued to do incredibly well in the Console market. With the Playstation 2 becoming the worlds best selling console in 2011 with 150 Million units sold.
Sony didnt just focus on the console market however. They have also worked hard on the software to go with their consoles. Often developing and publishing many titles for their Playstation consoles.
With the Playstation 3 Sony introduced motion gaming to their line of consoles. With the Sixaxis controller having motion sensors in it giving the player more control over their games. 4 Years after the release of the Playstation 3 in 2006, Sony released a new controller for it. The Playstation Move. A controller very similar to the Nintendo Wii controller. It was a motion controller wand which had a periphery "nunchuck" style controller. The Playstation Move controller wasn't relegated to specially made games for it either.Many games released compatability patches that allowed the Move controller to be used on games released before the controller itself.

Move.me was developed as a way to get people to innovate and create interesting and new applications for the Move controller. Similar to how people had developed programs for the Nintendo Wii or Microsoft Kinect which went beyond the original ideas for those controllers.