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Latest AR & VR patents, Page 51

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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  1. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Fixes Broken 3D Video on the Fly, Without Touching the Original File

    When left-eye and right-eye video frames don't quite line up at the edges, your brain breaks — the 3D illusion collapses into a headache-inducing mess. Apple's new patent wants to fix that at playback time, without ever touching the original video.

  2. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple Patents a Video Call That Hides More of You When Room Tracking Breaks

    Apple is patenting a video calling system where your physical room is actively tracked during a call — and if that tracking goes wrong, the system automatically dials back what the other person can see of you.

  3. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Lets You Control Real-World Objects With a Gesture

    Apple is working on a system where pointing at or gesturing toward a real-world object — a door, a smart light, a poster — could trigger an action instantly, with no pop-up menu or button required.

  4. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Fixes How Vision Pro Screenshots Look on a Regular Screen

    When you're wearing Apple Vision Pro and see a 3D app floating in your room, a regular screenshot looks nothing like what you actually experienced. Apple's latest patent is a fix for exactly that.

  5. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Lets Vision Pro Blur the World to Keep Up With You

    Apple's latest patent describes an AR headset that can dynamically swap between crisp-but-slow and blurry-but-fast views of the real world — depending on what the situation demands. It's a direct look at the kind of perceptual engineering that makes passthrough headsets feel real.

  6. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Turns a Headset Into a Personal Shopping Guide

    Apple is patenting a way to use AR overlays to guide shoppers directly to products they're interested in — turning a head-mounted display into a personal store navigator that responds to your browsing intent.

  7. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Lets You Summon a Floating App Menu With a Flick of Your Hand

    Apple is patenting a way to summon a floating app-launcher just by looking at your hand and flicking it — no button presses, no controllers, no voice commands required.

  8. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple's New Patent Quietly Widens the Target After a Missed Gesture

    Missed a tap in visionOS because your pinch landed slightly off? Apple is patenting a system that quietly widens the target zone on your second attempt, so a near-miss becomes a hit.

  9. Apple · Published Jun 4

    Apple Patents a Headset That Checks Your Temperature and Breathing From the Inside

    Apple is exploring ways to turn the inside of a headset into a health monitor — using thermal sensors aimed at your face to estimate not just skin temperature, but your core body temperature and how fast you're breathing.

  10. Meta · Published May 28

    Meta's New Patent Puts Translation in 3D Space So You Hear Both Languages at Once

    Imagine hearing someone speak in French while simultaneously hearing the English translation — each voice coming from a distinct direction in 3D space. That's the core idea behind Meta's latest AR headset patent.

  11. Samsung · Published Jun 4

    Samsung Patents an AR Display That Anchors Virtual Objects to Real-World Depth

    Mixing real and virtual visuals sounds easy until a virtual character appears to float in front of a wall that's actually five feet behind it. Samsung's new patent describes a system that measures the real distance to objects in your camera feed and snaps virtual counterparts to the exact right depth layer — so nothing looks like it's pasted on wrong.

  12. Samsung · Published Jun 4

    Samsung Patents a Display System That Adapts Virtual Overlays to AR and VR Contexts

    Samsung is patenting a system that automatically reshapes virtual helper objects depending on whether you're looking at the real world through a camera or living inside a fully virtual one — a small but meaningful quality-of-life detail for mixed-reality headsets.