Meta Patents a Digital-First Optical Alignment System for AR Headsets
Getting the optics perfectly aligned inside an AR headset is one of the hardest manufacturing problems in the industry — a fraction…
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Samsung Patents a Segmented Grating Design for Clearer AR Waveguide Displays
Getting light to spread evenly across an AR lens is one of the hardest unsolved problems in wearable displays. Samsung's latest patent…
Samsung Patents a GAN-Driven System for Context-Aware AR Surface Reflections
When you place a virtual object in an AR scene, its reflections are usually static — they don't respond to what's actually…
Meta Patents AR Glasses That Watch What You're Doing and Coach You in Real Time
Meta is patenting a system where your AR glasses watch what you're doing — using their outward-facing camera — and layer real-time…
Qualcomm's New Patent Turns Your XR Headset into a Live Radar for Lost Devices
Qualcomm wants your XR headset to act like a live radar screen — using radio signals to pinpoint where your phone, remote,…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Move XR Rendering Off Your Face
Rendering a full 3D scene on a lightweight headset is brutally hard — so Qualcomm wants to move that work to a…
Apple Patents a Multiview Content Display System for 3D Environments
Apple is patenting a way to manage how multiple content windows orient and interact with each other inside a three-dimensional space —…
Head-Mounted Display Device With Vision Correction
Millions of people who wear glasses or contacts have to jump through hoops to use VR headsets — Apple's latest patent wants…
Apple Patents a System That Adjusts Avatar Quality Based on Where You're Looking
Apple is working on a video-calling system smart enough to know when you're about to look at someone — and quietly upgrades…
Apple Patents a Smart Video Call System That Adds 3D Depth on Vision Pro
When you're on a video call, your iPhone and your Vision Pro are very different screens — so why should they show…
Apple Patents a Hybrid Indoor-Outdoor Positioning System Using Sensors and Camera Poses
GPS falls apart the moment you step inside a building — Apple's latest patent describes a system that uses ambient sensor readings…
Apple Patents a Smarter AR Plane Detection System Using Semantic ML
Getting AR objects to stick convincingly to real-world surfaces is harder than it looks — and Apple's latest patent targets one of…
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