Meta's New Patent Hides Headset Hardware Where Your Eyes Can't See It
Your eyes have a natural blind spot at the edge of your vision — and Meta wants to stuff the hardware of…
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Meta's New Patent Hides Charging and Display Sensors Inside AR Glasses' Nose Bridge
Meta is trying to squeeze two completely different jobs — battery charging and display alignment sensing — into a single flexible circuit…
Meta's New Patent Hides Muscle-Reading Sensors Inside a Fabric Wristband
Meta is patenting a wristband that picks up the electrical signals your muscles fire when you move — wrapped in fabric, held…
Meta's New Patent Teaches AR Glasses to Filter Out the Digital Clutter
Imagine walking into a store and your AR glasses are technically aware of a hundred digital overlays attached to products around you…
Google's New Patent Lets an AI Answer Questions About Whatever You're Watching in AR
Imagine asking a question mid-movie and getting an answer that actually accounts for where you are in the story — not just…
Google Patents AR Glasses That Stop Ghost Images Before They Reach Your Eyes
If you've ever seen a faint double image or halo in an AR headset, you've met stray light. Google's latest patent is…
Google's New Patent Lets a VR Headset Tell Streaming Apps Where to Put the Screen
Google is patenting a handshake system that lets an XR headset tell a streaming app exactly where and how to place a…
Google Patents AR Glasses That Track Your Eyes Without a Visible Camera
Google has filed a patent for an AR waveguide that handles both your display image and infrared eye tracking inside the same…
Google Patents AR Glasses That Stop Text From Vanishing Into the Background
If you've ever squinted at white AR text floating in front of a white wall and thought 'this is unreadable,' Google is…
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…
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…
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…
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