Archives for Inventions - Page 3
Microsoft Files Patent for a Vibrating Virtual Reality Floor Mat
Microsoft has filed a patent for a dedicated vibrating virtual reality floor mat that could help headset wearers avoid obstacles such as furniture in the room. The patent application also…
Nintendo Has Registered Patents For New Switch VR Headset Design
Nintendo is launching its Switch Lite on September 20th but the tech giant is also working on some new innovations. The company has recently filed a patent for a new…
Jaguar Land Rover Develops New 3D Virtual Reality In-Car Experience
Cutting-edge immersive entertainment for an autonomous future. Automakers are beginning to explore ways through which they can revolutionize in-car entertainment, particularly as autonomous car technology continues to grow in sophistication.…
Google’s AI Hand-Tracking Algorithm Could Be a Major Step to Sign Language Recognition
Sign language is used by millions of people around the world but few who are not deaf are able to understand the hand gestures that constitute sign language. For quite…
Facebook’s Mind Reading Interface Could be Closer to Reality
Facebook has been financing an R&D initiative it first introduced in 2017 at the F8 on a brain-computer interface (BCI) that could possibly be used on its future augmented reality…
KAT Loco Sensors Provide a Complete Wearable VR Locomotion System
Virtual reality controllers and headsets now easily track head and hand movements. However, the last terrain that has proven difficult to conquer is foot-tracking. The games hardware company KAT is…
Samsung is Building Foldable Augmented Reality Glasses
Samsung’s early efforts at immersive technologies were mainly focused on virtual reality rather than augmented reality platform development. However, the company is just about to branch into AR according to…
Facebook Has Improved Its Prototype Virtual Reality Face Tracking
Early in 2019, Facebook revealed details about the research on futuristic photorealistic avatars and high-definition virtual reality face-tracking technology that would power these avatars. Facebook has since progressed down the…
New Tech Brings Taste to Virtual Reality
Innovations in the peripheral experiences have helped make virtual reality more immersive and more realistic. The development of haptics (touch) is now at an advanced stage. We have also seen…
Sony Patents New Haptic Feedback Gloves for PSVR
It appears Sony has some lofty ambitions for its upcoming PlayStation 5 aimed at making the virtual reality experiences more immersive and realistic. A patent published at the USPTO shows…