PlayStation Patent Shows Eye-Tracking And Foveated Rendering

A recently-published patent filing from Sony Interactive Entertainment (the PlayStation division of the company) details eye-tracking technology that we could see in PSVR 2. The document, which was filed in June of this year and published towards the end of September (as spotted on Reddit) details ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images […]

Sony Patent Seeks To Replace Controllers With Bananas

“System and method for generating user inputs for a video game” reads US Patent Application number 20210031110, submitted by Sony Interactive Entertainment on August 1, 2019, and approved on July 15, 2020. The patent basically seeks to replace the standard game controller with common household objects. Technically it could be anything, but the patent has […]

Apple VR Patent Highlights Work on Detecting Boundaries

Apple might be the only major tech company which hasn’t released a virtual reality (VR) product but its definitely working on it. The latest indication of this is a newly published patent highlighting work on a boundary system for those in VR. A highly important feature used by every headset on the market, as any […]

Valve Patent Application Revealed For A Wireless VR System

A new patent application filed by Valve last year but published today details a wireless VR system. “In at least some implementations, a wireless data transport system is provided that includes an electrically steerable antenna, such as a phased-array antenna, that is operative to selectively steer its beam based on electronic control input,” the patent […]