Qualcomm Patents an Encryption Layer for Live Augmented Reality Calls
Qualcomm is patenting a way to lock down the 3D digital objects inside an AR call — so only the people who…
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Sony Patents a Vehicle Window That Doubles as a Per-Pixel Gaming Display
Sony wants to turn the passenger-side car window into a gaming screen — and it has a clever trick for dealing with…
Sony Patents a System That Rewrites Physics Rules in XR Spaces
What if your mixed-reality headset could decide that gravity doesn't apply to a virtual object right now — because you're holding a…
Sony Patents a Gaze-Aware XR System That Processes Your View at Different Speeds
Sony is quietly working on an XR gaming system that pays attention to where your eyes are pointed — and throws more…
Sony Patents Color-Coded HMD Lights That Show When Gamers Can Be Interrupted
Ever tried talking to someone deep in a VR game, only to yank them out of a critical moment? Sony's new patent…
Apple Patents a Context-Aware AR Filter That Manages Notification Overload
Imagine your AR glasses deciding, on their own, that you're in the middle of a sprint interval — and silencing every floating…
Apple Patents a Two-Stage Playback Control System Driven by Gaze and Gesture
Apple is patenting a media control system that responds differently depending on whether you glance at it or actively stare — a…
Apple Patents Mid-Air Gesture Control for Wireless Speaker Playback
Apple is patenting a way to control nearby speakers — volume, track skipping, pause, play — using nothing but hand gestures in…
Apple Patents a System for Placing Remote Users in Shared 3D Environments
When some people are in the same room and others are joining remotely, where do you put the remote person's avatar in…
Google Patents a Time-Multiplexed Display That Shifts Pixels to Boost Resolution
Google has patented a clever optical trick: instead of cramming more pixels onto a display panel, it rapidly tilts the angle of…
Meta Patents a Nose-Bridge Disparity Sensor to Keep AR Displays Perfectly Aligned
If the two tiny displays inside a pair of AR glasses drift even slightly out of alignment, your brain turns that misalignment…
Meta Patents a Shared Anchor System to Keep Multiuser XR Worlds in Sync
When two people in different rooms put on XR headsets and enter the same virtual space, how do you make sure they're…
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