VR & Augmented Reality

Sony received 1 patent centered on the challenge of moving a personal avatar between different metaverse environments. When a user crosses from one virtual world to another, their avatar's appearance often breaks down because each environment operates under its own visual rules. This filing describes a system that simultaneously adapts both the geometry and texture of a 3D avatar to match the target environment's aesthetic, drawing on metaverse-specific visual feature databases to do so automatically. Earlier approaches only handled 2D color correction in augmented spaces, so the extension to full 3D shape and surface adaptation together is what sets this apart.

Niantic received 1 patent addressing how an AR system can determine a user's precise real-world location without constructing costly 3D maps of each area it needs to cover. The approach works by randomly sampling feature tokens from reference images, which keeps the computational load steady no matter how large the reference image library grows. A single foundation model handles localization across different locations without requiring any retraining for each new area, replacing both the traditional 3D modeling pipeline and the per-location custom models that have typically been necessary.