ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,534, issued on June 3, was assigned to Virzoom Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Virtual reality motion control" was invented by Eric Malafeew (Burlington, Mass.) and Jason Warburg (Wells, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality (VR) control method includes displaying, by a VR device, a VR environment. The VR environment is presented from a perspective in the VR environment that is defined with respect to a reference frame in the VR environment. A graphical indicator of a current real-world position of the VR device with respect to a real-world reference position is displayed. The graphical indicator tracks the perspective during...