US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Nov. 25 for "Detecting onset of motion sickness in virtual reality (VR)" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,353, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

"Detecting onset of motion sickness in virtual reality (VR)" was invented by Elizabeth Schmidlin (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting Onset of Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality (VR) Signals from a motion sensor on a head-mounted device (HMD) used by a player of a computer game are analyzed to determine whether motion of the player such as sway may resemble a precursor motion pattern to motion sickness, so that the player may be advised accordingly before the symptoms of motion sickness manifest themselves."

The patent was filed on May...