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Latest AR & VR patents, Page 48

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.

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last 90 days
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Recent filings

Newest first · 690 total
  1. Meta · Published Jun 18

    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 angle: instead of cramming everything through one connection, split the load across two at the same time.

  2. Microsoft · Published Jun 18

    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 — and your display can't handle both at once. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting that problem in two.

  3. Microsoft · Published Jun 18

    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 fine print across the table, all at the same time. That's the idea behind this Microsoft patent.

  4. Google · Published Jun 18

    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 sounds you'd hear — and from which direction — based on exactly where you're standing inside that scene.

  5. Google · Published Jun 18

    Google's New Patent Shifts AR Text Color Based on What Your Eyes Are Actually Focused On

    Floating AR text looks sharp on screen, but your eyes often disagree — they're focused on the real wall behind the words, not the digital layer in front. Google's new patent tackles that mismatch by quietly shifting the color of virtual content based on depth.

  6. Google · Published Jun 18

    Google's New Patent Hides the Grid Pattern That Makes AR Glasses Look Strange

    One of the biggest reasons AR glasses look strange on your face is that their lenses have a visible grid-like pattern built into them. Google is filing a patent for a coating designed to make that problem invisible.

  7. Google · Published Jun 18

    Google's New Patent Fixes Blurry Text in AR Glasses by Reading How Far Away a Wall Is

    When you look at a wall through AR glasses and the floating text goes blurry, that's a real problem — and Google has a patent for fixing it by making the virtual content bigger or smaller depending on how far away the wall actually is.

  8. Google · Published Jun 18

    Google's New Patent Resizes Your Screen Based on Where You Are and Where You're Looking

    Google is working on a system that automatically adjusts what's on your screen — its size, layout, and format — depending on where you physically are and where your eyes are pointed.

  9. Google · Published Jun 18

    Google's New Patent Stops AR Glasses from Clicking When You Didn't Mean To

    Anyone who has used a hand-tracking headset knows the frustration of accidentally clicking something just by shifting your fingers. Google's latest patent tackles exactly that problem — and it does it by treating your two hands differently.

  10. Apple · Published Jun 18

    Apple's New Patent Stops Vision Pro from Asking You to Prove Who You Are Twice

    You scan your face to unlock something, then thirty seconds later the app asks you to do it again. Apple's new patent is trying to fix exactly that — by watching whether you ever stopped being you.

  11. Apple · Published Jun 11

    New Patent Lets Apple Devices Hand Off Control Based on Room Position

    What if editing a document on your Mac automatically handed off to your Vision Pro the moment you leaned back and looked up? That's essentially what Apple is patenting here — a system that watches where you are in a room and passes control accordingly.

  12. Google · Published Jun 11

    AR Glasses Patent Rethinks How Light Reaches Your Eye

    Getting light from a tiny projector into your eye — through a thin piece of glass — is one of the hardest unsolved problems in AR glasses design. Google's latest patent tackles a specific version of that problem: what happens when the projector sits farther away from the glass than ideal.