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Latest AR & VR patents, Page 2

Headsets, smart glasses, and the displays, eye tracking and sensors that make them work, from Apple, Meta, Samsung, Sony and more. The augmented reality and virtual reality patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, newest first.

in the Nov 12 release
25
in November so far
47
filings tracked
690
last 90 days
358

Recent filings

Newest first · 690 total
  1. Qualcomm · Published Nov 12

    Qualcomm Files Patent for AR Meetings Where Remote Coworkers Appear Beside Your 3D Model

    Qualcomm's new patent application would put a coworker from another city next to your 3D model, as a stand-in that moves when they do.

  2. Samsung · Published Nov 12

    Samsung Patents AR Glasses That Ignore Touches You Didn't Mean to Make

    Samsung's AR glasses would check whether you meant to touch them before acting on it. One version even listens to your brainwaves for the tell.

  3. Meta · Published Nov 12

    Meta Patents a Virtual Hoop at Your Feet for Getting Around in VR

    Meta's patent puts the controls for moving around in VR at your feet. Look down, and a hoop appears that you can grab and drag to wherever you want to go.

  4. Google · Published Nov 12

    Google Files Patent for Glasses Lens That Keeps Images in View for More Wearers

    Smart glasses only show you the picture if your eye lands in a small sweet spot. A new Google patent application tries to widen that spot in both directions using a single patch of tiny mirrors built into the lens.

  5. IBM · Published Nov 12

    IBM Patents a Safety Zone That Slows Forklifts Around Workers Operating Distant Machines

    IBM's patent describes a forklift that slows down, goes quiet and even stops puffing exhaust the moment it nears a worker who is remotely running a crane from an AR headset.

  6. Google · Published Nov 12

    Google Patents Smart Glasses That Size Up Objects From the Way You Hold Them

    Google has filed a patent application for smart glasses that learn about the object in your hand, such as how heavy a cup is, by watching only your fingers.

  7. Google · Published Nov 12

    Google Files Patent for Smartglasses Menus You Control by Moving Your Eyes

    Google's smartglasses patent application skips the hard question of exactly where you're looking and asks an easier one: which way did your eyes just move?

  8. Meta · Published Nov 12

    Meta Patents a Fix for Washed-Out Blacks in Headset Displays

    Meta found a way to stop a headset's own lighting from fogging up the picture: tilt a thin sheet by a few degrees.

  9. Qualcomm · Published Nov 12

    Qualcomm Files Patent to Let Underpowered AR Glasses Join 3D Calls Using Network Power

    Your AR glasses may never need to draw the 3D scene. Qualcomm describes a way to have the phone network do the drawing and stream back plain video.

  10. Sony · Published Nov 12

    Sony Files Patent for VR Graphics That Sharpen Only Where You Look

    Your eyes only see fine detail in a tiny spot at the center of your vision, and a new Sony filing wants a VR headset to draw only that spot in full. The trick is a camera that tracks your eye by reporting tiny changes in light as they happen.

  11. Apple · Published Nov 12

    Apple Patents a Headset Setup That Floats Your Video Above Your Laptop Screen

    Apple describes a headset that treats your laptop like a control panel. The 3D video floats in the air above the screen, while the editing tools stay on the sharp laptop display.

  12. Samsung · Published Nov 12

    Samsung Files Patent for Headsets That Pull a Real Screen Into Your View

    Samsung describes a headset that notices which real device you are looking at, copies that device's screen into your virtual view, and hands the controls to your eyes and hands. Your remote or game controller can keep working the original device too.