ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,269, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Controlling locomotion within an artificial-reality application using hand gestures, and methods and systems of use thereof" was invented by Brandon Furtwangler (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for adjusting a representation of a user's position within an artificial-reality application using a hand gesture. One example method includes, while displaying, via a head-wearable device worn by a user, a representation of a user's position within an artificial-reality environment, in response to rece...