ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,407, issued on April 1, was assigned to Monsarrat Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Real world walking to control superhuman virtual world movement" was invented by Jonathan Monsarrat (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a virtual experience where a user holds or wears a computer device that displays a virtual world, and the user's physical movement is used to control a virtual avatar through that virtual world in a heightened way. For example, by simply walking around, the user may control a fast moving virtual airplane. A simulation system reads user location information from a sensor in the comp...