Sony Patents a Context-Aware Eye-Tracking System That Knows What You're Trying to Select
Picking things with your eyes sounds simple — until you realize your gaze wanders constantly and the wrong item keeps getting highlighted.…
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Apple Patents a System That Reconstructs Hidden Faces in VR Avatars
When you're wearing Apple's Vision Pro and take a sip of coffee, your digital avatar's mouth disappears — this patent is Apple's…
Apple Patents a System That Builds 3D Scenes From a Single Photo
Apple is patenting a pipeline that takes a single, ordinary 2D photo and reconstructs a full 3D scene from it — no…
Apple Patents Eye-Tracking Glasses That Hide the Cameras in the Arms
Apple has figured out a way to track your eyes from the arms of a pair of glasses — no bulky front-frame…
Google Patents a Pre-Assembly Calibration System for Modular AR Displays
Building AR glasses is basically a precision nightmare — tiny misalignments between cameras, displays, and sensors ruin the illusion entirely. Google's new…
Google Patents a Dual LCoS Light Engine for AR Eyewear Displays
One of the biggest dirty secrets of AR displays is how much light they waste. Google's new patent takes direct aim at…
Google Patents a Two-Step Head-Gesture Detection System for Wearables
Nod to accept, shake to decline — Google is patenting a reliable way to make that actually work. The trick is using…
Google Patents an Overlapping Reflective Facet Waveguide for AR Displays
Getting light out of a tiny glass slab — evenly, brightly, and without dark bands — is one of the hardest unsolved…
Microsoft Patents a Spatiotemporal Memory System That Makes Video Searchable in 3D
Microsoft is building what amounts to a spatial long-term memory for video — a system that can answer questions like "where was…
Microsoft Patents a Way for AR Headsets to Share Each Other's Views Mid-Collaboration
Imagine working alongside a colleague in augmented reality and being able to glance at exactly what they're seeing — without taking off…
Meta Patents Haptic Feedback System That Signals XR Event Urgency
Meta wants your wrist — or wearable of choice — to literally feel the difference between a low-priority XR notification and something…
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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