US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 27 for "Systems and methods for providing spatial awareness in virtual reality" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,092, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing spatial awareness in virtual reality" was invented by Eugene Lee (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, for a VR display device and based on a field of view of a user in a real-world environment, a first output image of a VR environment. The method includes determining whether the user is approaching within a threshold distance of a real-world object in the real-world environment. The method includes accessing one or more images of the real-world...