Sony Patents a System That Rewrites Physics Rules in XR Spaces
What if your mixed-reality headset could decide that gravity doesn't apply to a virtual object right now — because you're holding a…
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Sony Patents a 3D Facial Animation Transfer System for Game Characters
Capturing a real actor's facial performance and having it look right on a fictional game character is a notoriously messy problem. Sony's…
Sony Files Patent for a Configurable Motion-Evaluation Content Generator
Sony is patenting a system that takes a specific 'evaluation perspective' — say, a physical therapist's criteria or a sports coach's checklist…
Sony Patents a Gaze-Aware XR System That Processes Your View at Different Speeds
Sony is quietly working on an XR gaming system that pays attention to where your eyes are pointed — and throws more…
Sony Patents Color-Coded HMD Lights That Show When Gamers Can Be Interrupted
Ever tried talking to someone deep in a VR game, only to yank them out of a critical moment? Sony's new patent…
Sony Patents a Floor-Card-Reading Toy That Teaches Kids to Program
Sony Interactive Entertainment is patenting a toy vehicle that drives over physical cards laid on the floor — each card encoding a…
Sony Patents an AI Upscaling System That Uses 3D Game World Data to Sharpen Frames
Sony's latest patent describes an AI upscaling system that doesn't just blindly enlarge a frame — it feeds the machine learning model…
Sony Files Patent for a System That Remembers Your Speaker Layout
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented a way for an information processing system — almost certainly a game console or cloud gaming service…
Sony Patents a Paired-Rollback Storage System for Safe Software Updates
Updating software is easy — rolling it back safely when something goes wrong is the hard part. Sony's new patent tackles exactly…
Intel Patents a Robot That Guesses Object Weight From Your Posture
Before a robot grabs something from you, it needs to know how heavy it is — and Intel thinks the best way…
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