Qualcomm Patents a Way to Build 3D Scenes by Picking Only the Best Camera Shots
Building a 3D model from photos sounds simple — just take a bunch of pictures. But the tricky part is knowing which…
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Sony Patents an AR System That Reads the Room to Customize What You See
What if an AR headset could automatically adjust what it shows you — based on who you are — without you touching…
Sony Patents Sound That Shifts Based on Where Your Virtual Character Stands
In most multiplayer games, your teammate sounds the same whether their character is standing next to you or across the map. Sony…
Qualcomm's New Patent Stops AR Glasses from Filming What You're Not Looking At
Your AR headset is doing a lot of work to show you the real world in high detail — but what if…
Samsung's New Patent Lets AR Glasses Read Your Body to Switch Menus
Imagine tilting your head or shifting your stance and watching your AR headset's entire menu system change automatically — no button press,…
Meta's New Patent Moves the Heavy Graphics Work Off Your AR Glasses
Meta is patenting a way to take the hardest graphics work off an AR headset entirely — by offloading it to a…
Meta's New Patent Lets Its AR Glasses Identify Anything You Look At
Point your eyes at something, and Meta's glasses could instantly tell you what it is — no button, no voice command, just…
Meta's Latest Patent Lets Drivers Control Their Car by Looking at It
Imagine glancing at your car's climate vent and flicking your finger to crank up the heat — no touchscreen, no voice command…
Meta's New Patent Splits AR Streaming Across Two Wireless Connections at Once
Streaming rich XR content wirelessly is one of the hardest unsolved problems in AR and VR. Meta's latest patent takes a different…
Microsoft's New Patent Fixes the Lighting Mismatch at the Edges of AR Headsets
When you look through an AR headset, the center of your view and the edges often have wildly different lighting conditions —…
Microsoft's New Patent Lets AR Glasses Zoom In on a Sign While You See the Whole Room
Imagine wearing a headset that shows you the room at normal scale — but also keeps a zoomed-in window trained on the…
Google's New Patent Turns a Flat Photo Into a 3D Scene You Can Hear
Google is patenting a system that looks at an ordinary photo, rebuilds it as a 3D scene, and then figures out what…
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