Meta Patents a Disambiguation System for Ray-Ban Glasses That Asks You to Clarify What You're Looking At
When you ask your smart glasses to do something with an object in front of you, they might not know exactly which…
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Samsung Patents an HMD Sleep Mode That Slowly Fades Your Virtual World Away
Samsung is working on a way to help you fall asleep while wearing a mixed-reality headset — by gradually making your virtual…
Samsung Patents Gaze-Gated Hand Tracking to Cut XR Processing Load
Samsung's new patent describes a wearable that only fires up full hand-skeleton tracking when you're actually looking at your hand — a…
Samsung Patents a Wearable That Reads and Tracks Any On-Screen Keyboard
Samsung is working on a wearable device — think smart glasses or a head-mounted display — that can look at a keyboard…
Samsung Patents a Head-Worn Display That Adapts Its Input Mode to Whatever You're Holding
Samsung's new patent describes AR/smart glasses that can detect when you pick up a paired device — like a phone or controller…
Qualcomm Patents an ML Fallback System for Body Pose Tracking Failures
Qualcomm's new patent tackles one of the messiest problems in real-time body tracking: what happens when the physics engine gets it wrong?…
Qualcomm Patents a Display Pipeline That Fixes Color Fringing After Foveated Blending
Color fringing at the edge of your field of view is one of those small-but-annoying artifacts that XR headsets still haven't fully…
Sony Patents a Dual-Layer Spherical Display System Using Frequency-Synced Shutter Headsets
Imagine sitting inside a giant glowing ball — and whether you're wearing a headset or not, you see a completely different image…
Sony Patents Real-Time Environmental Reflections for AR Virtual Objects
One of the biggest reasons AR objects look fake is that they don't reflect the world around them. Sony's latest patent tackles…
Sony Patents a Margin-Region Eye-Gaze System for Picking Objects in 3D Space
Staring at something in VR to select it sounds simple — until you realize how hard it is to tell exactly which…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware AR Display That Adapts Virtual Screens to Your Real Environment
When you switch your AR headset from a fully immersive mode to a see-through mode, your virtual workspace shouldn't just freeze or…
IBM Patents a System for Personalizing In-Vehicle Virtual Environments
IBM has filed a patent for generating personalized virtual environment visuals inside a vehicle — pulling in real-time vehicle data and a…
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