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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Samsung Patents a System That Turns Everyday Objects Into Device Controls
Samsung is working on a way to let you point at a physical object — a pen, a coffee mug, whatever —…
Samsung Patents a Two-Step Gesture System for AR Wearables That Skips the Button-Tap
Tapping a tiny floating button in AR is harder than it sounds — Samsung's new patent sidesteps the problem entirely by watching…
Samsung Display Patents a Nanostructure Light-Steering System for Thin AR Optics
Samsung Display is working on a way to fold a full holographic display pipeline into a thin slab of glass — using…
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