Meta Patent Aims to Replace Touch Controls With Gaze-Tracking Smart Glasses
Meta wants its smart glasses to know what you're trying to do just by watching where your eyes go. No tapping, no…
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Apple Patents a Folded-Light Lens Design for Thinner VR Headsets
One of the biggest complaints about VR headsets is that they're thick and heavy. Apple is patenting a lens design that bounces…
New Lens Material Patent Could Make Smart Glasses Half as Thick
The lenses in AR glasses are thick and heavy because standard plastics don't bend light efficiently enough. Meta is patenting a material…
Apple Patents a New System for Grabbing and Moving Virtual Objects in AR and VR
Picking up a virtual coffee mug in AR sounds simple, but getting it to feel natural is surprisingly hard. Apple has filed…
Apple Patents a Way to Find 'Down' by Reading Lines in a Camera Image
Knowing which way is 'down' sounds trivially obvious to a human, but it's a surprisingly hard problem for a device trying to…
Apple Patents a Display That Shifts the Camera's View to Match Your Eyes
Your phone's camera sits in one spot, but your eyes sit in another. Apple is patenting a way to fix that gap…
Apple Patent Reveals Dynamic 3D Avatars That Track Movement in Video Calls
Imagine leaning forward in a video call and having the other person's avatar actually look like you got closer. Apple is patenting…
Apple Patents a Two-Device System for Tracking Your Head to Control a 3D Display
Apple is exploring a way to make a regular flat screen behave more like a 3D window by tracking your head position…
Google Patents a Light-Splitting Layer That Could Make AR Glasses Displays Thinner
Getting a bright, clear image into the lens of a pair of AR glasses is harder than it looks. Google's latest patent…
Apple Patent Lets Software Choose and Apply Movement Controls Based on Object Appearance
Animating a 3D object today means manually wiring up an invisible skeleton to every part of it, a process that can take…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Keep Objects Tagged While Building a 3D Map
Building a 3D map of the world is hard enough. Keeping track of which blob of pixels belongs to which chair, person,…
New VR Patent Mimics Natural Eye Focus for Sharper Images
Your eyes don't pay equal attention to everything in a VR scene, so why send equal amounts of image data for every…
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