Samsung patents method to move VR context to real devices
Samsung has filed a patent for a system that tracks what a user is doing in a virtual reality session and identifies which of their physical devices is best suited to continue that activity. The system analyzes the user's interests in the virtual content and matches them with the capabilities of their real-world gadgets to transfer the context seamlessly.
In the filing’s own words
A method of controlling an electronic device for enabling a context transfer from a virtual session to an environment external to the virtual session, includes detecting at least one user in an a virtual session; based on detecting the at least one user, obtaining a context of at least one virtual device content present in the virtual session, based on detecting the at least one user; obtaining at least one user interest related with the at least one virtual device content using at least one user input in the virtual session; obtaining correlation information between the at least one user interest and at least one content capability of a plurality of real world user devices of the at least one user; and providing at least one real world user device, among the plurality of user devices, to the at least one user for transferring the context of the at least one virtual device content based on the correlation information.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of controlling an electronic device for enabling a context transfer from a virtual environment to a real environment, the method comprising: obtaining a context of a virtual content present in the virtual environment; obtaining user interest information related with the virtual content based on a user input of a user in the virtual environment; obtaining correlation information between the user interest information and capability information of a plurality of user devices; and identifying target user device, among the plurality of user devices, for transferring the context of the virtual content to the target user device based on the correlation information.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION FLOW USING META-CONTEXT TRANSFER
- Publication number
- US20260277309A1
- Application number
- 19670834
- Filed
- May 7, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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