META HAS FILED HUNDREDS OF NEW PATENTS DECRIBING TECHNOLOGIES FOR METAVERSE

Meta (@meta) has filed hundreds of new patents describing technologies for its metaverse, including headbands, glasses and sensor-packed belts that monitor players’ facial expressions, eye movements and body poses. Meta aims to make realistic avatars for its metaverse and plans to do so by watching users’ every move with customized technologies. It filed a trove of patents for these innovations that track facial expressions, eye movements and body poses of players in the digital world. The technologies described in the patents, which were reviewed by the Financial Times, may never be more than just drawings on paper, but Meta is tirelessly working to create a digital world where people can play and work. The patent for a ‘wearable magnetic sensor system’ describes using different devices on the body to collect biometric data of the user. Early tester of Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse app reveals…
THE GLASSES
This patent describes a pair of glasses with an electronic display that provides separate images to each of eye to immerse them in the metaverse, but also track their eye movement to better display digital scenes.
The document also includes drawings of a user wearing a device that transforms them into a knight in the metaverse, who is carrying a sword and wearing armor.
THE WEARABLE MAGNETIC SENSOR SYSTEM
The patent for a ‘wearable magnetic sensor system’ describes using different devices on the body to collect biometric data of the user. The document includes drawings of a user wearing a device that transforms them into a knight in the metaverse
DEVICES
In the application titled ‘Devices, Systems and Methods for Radar-based Artificial Reality Tracking’ Meta describes several new technologies. The patent images include an artificial reality headband that can track the user’s head movements
In the application titled ‘Devices, Systems and Methods for Radar-based Artificial Reality Tracking’ Meta describes several new technologies.
The patent images include an artificial reality headband, augmented reality glasses and sensor-packed gloves.
The headband can track the user’s head movements but may also include output and input audio transducers that capture sounds in the environment.
The patent notes that this device can take on other forms, such as hair bands, belts, watches, wrist bands and more.
THE GLOVES
The gloves shown in the document would pair with a virtual reality headset, likely Meta’s Oculus, and feature haptic features that let users ‘feel’ objects in the metaverse, but also track their hand movements
And another patent describes basing avatars off the user’s own photos. This is done through a device that sits on the user’s head and takes 3D images of them, which are then uploaded into the metaverse