US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for physical proximity and/or gesture-based chaining of VR experiences" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,256, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for physical proximity and/or gesture-based chaining of VR experiences" was invented by Tatu V. J. Harviainen (Helsinki) and Marko Palviainen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a method may include tracking a distance between a local VR device and a remote VR device; selecting an experience-sharing mode from a plurality of experience-sharing modes based on the tracked distance; and providing a different degree of immersive user experience to a user at the local VR device depending on the selecte...