US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 27 for "Directional warnings in co-located play in virtual reality environments" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,363, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Directional warnings in co-located play in virtual reality environments" was invented by David Frederick Geisert (Redwood City, Calif.), Eugene Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Shir Lene Lim (Kirkland, Wash.), Brittany Baxter (Renton, Wash.) and Jeng-Weei Lin (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, for one or more displays of a VR display device, a first output image of a VR environment based on a field of view of a first user. The method includes determining whether a second user is approac...