Apple Patents a Virtual Store Where You Can Swap Accessories and Try On Products
Apple has filed a patent for a three-dimensional virtual shopping environment where you can customize products by dragging accessories onto them and…
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Meta Patents a Multi-Camera System That Boosts Image Sharpness in AR Glasses
AR glasses have a real hardware problem: small frames mean small cameras, and small cameras mean blurry images. Meta's latest patent describes…
Apple Patents an XR Headset Feature That Guides Users Through Physical Spaces
Apple is exploring a way for extended reality headsets to watch how you're moving and behaving, figure out that you might need…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Find Your Location by Matching Photos to 3D Maps
GPS doesn't work indoors, inside tunnels, or in dense city blocks where satellites get blocked. Microsoft is patenting a method that figures…
Samsung Patents a VR Display System That Sharpens Only Where Your Eyes Point
Samsung has filed a patent for a VR rendering technique that concentrates visual detail exactly where a wearer's eyes are looking, and…
Samsung Patents AI-Powered Video Sharpening for See-Through XR Headsets
Mixed-reality headsets show you the world through cameras, and those cameras often look worse than your own eyes. Samsung is patenting a…
Apple Patents a System for Deciding Which App Controls Your Mixed-Reality World
When you're running several apps at once inside a mixed-reality headset, which one gets to change the sky, the lighting, or the…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Knows When to Move AR Labels Out of the Way
AR headsets are great at plastering labels onto the world, but knowing when to move or hide those labels is a harder…
Apple Patents a Floating Window That Makes AR Content Look Recessed in Space
Apple has patented a way to make content in a mixed-reality headset appear to sit physically behind a floating window cut into…
Sony Patents a System That Changes Your 3D Avatar to Fit Any Virtual World
Your cartoon avatar walks into a photorealistic virtual city and looks completely out of place. Sony's latest patent tries to fix that…
Apple Patents a Method to Reduce Large Immersive 3D Environment File Sizes
Photorealistic 3D scenes captured from the real world can balloon to enormous file sizes, making them slow to load and painful to…
Apple Patents a Way to Know When It Has Scanned Enough of Your Room
Before your AR device can place virtual furniture on your floor or stick a sticky note to your wall, it needs to…
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