Apple Patents a System That Wraps 3D Sound Around Whatever Is on Your Screen
Apple is working on audio that doesn't just surround you in the abstract, it positions sound specifically around the thing you're looking…
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Meta Patents a System That Automatically Lights Up Your Hands When AR Headset Cameras Lose Track
If you've ever waved at an AR headset and gotten no response, you've hit a real problem: cameras struggle to read your…
Meta Patents a System That Organizes Audio Into Zones in Virtual Spaces
In a virtual room with dozens of people talking at once, audio quickly becomes a wall of noise. Meta's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents a One-Step Image Correction Method for AR and VR Headsets
When you move your head in a VR headset, the display has to scramble to catch up and fix the image before…
Sony Patents a Display That Projects Images Directly Onto the Eye for Sharper Focus
Sony has filed a patent for a display that skips the screen entirely and paints images directly onto your retina, using multiple…
Sony Patents a Fix for the Blurry Edges Between AR Lens Gratings
AR glasses make light do something tricky: they bounce images off tiny etched patterns inside a thin piece of glass. Where two…
Samsung Patents a Device That Maps a Room by Looking Around and Shows Where You Are
Your phone's GPS is useless the moment you walk indoors. Samsung is patenting a system that solves that by having a device…
Meta Patents AR Glasses Where the Lens Is Part of the Frame Itself
Meta has filed a patent for a way to bake corrective lenses directly into the rigid frame of augmented reality glasses, potentially…
Apple Patents a System That Logs You Into Devices by Tracking Where You Look
Apple has filed a patent for a login system that requires no password, no fingerprint, and no tap, just your gaze. If…
Apple Patents a System for Hiding Private Content in Shared Virtual Spaces
In a shared virtual room, you and a colleague might be looking at the same space, but that doesn't mean you should…
Apple Patents a Thinner System for Tracking Eyes in Its Headsets
Apple is rethinking how the tiny lights that follow your eyes fit inside a headset, flipping the circuit board on its edge…
Apple Patents Eye-Tracking That Scrolls Text When You Finish Reading
Apple has filed a patent for a display system that watches where your eyes are moving and automatically scrolls to the next…
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