This month's VR and augmented reality category includes 1 granted patent from Sony.
The patent covers a safety system for free-roam VR environments, where the headset display renders a virtual representation of real-world individuals, such as staff or visitors, who enter the play area without a headset. Sony's approach maps these representations to the physical location of those individuals in real time, allowing headset wearers to perceive and avoid people they would otherwise be unable to see.
Sony received 1 patent addressing how free-roam VR experiences can account for people who enter a play area without wearing a headset. The system uses a visitor information acquisition section to detect the presence of those individuals and feed their real-world positions into the process that constructs the virtual environment, so a corresponding object appears in the headset display at the correct location. A zone-based variant takes this further by rendering an entire region as a virtual object when someone steps into a predefined area, with a sensor or input device reporting both entry and exit events.
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