Meta patents AR glasses that type by looking down
Meta describes an augmented-reality headset with multiple cameras, including a downward-facing one that watches your hands. This setup allows the device to recognize typing gestures in the air, letting you input text without a physical keyboard.
In the filing’s own words
An augmented-reality head-wearable system, includes a first outward-facing camera configured to provide first image data for object tracking, a second outward-facing camera configured to provide second image data for depth sensing, wherein the second outward-facing camera has a higher resolution than the first outward-facing camera, the first outward-facing camera and the second outward-facing camera are configured to provide image data for processing by an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for contextual AI usage for answering user queries directed to the AI assistant at a first point in time, and the first outward-facing camera and the second outward-facing camera are configured to capture image data associated with a first field-of-view (FOV) of the augmented-reality head-wearable system, and a downward-facing camera, wherein the downward-facing camera is configured to capture gestures within a second FOV of the augmented-reality head-wearable system.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An augmented-reality head-wearable system, comprising: a first outward-facing camera configured to provide first image data for object tracking; a second outward-facing camera configured to provide second image data for depth sensing, wherein: the second outward-facing camera has a higher resolution than the first outward-facing camera; the first outward-facing camera and the second outward-facing camera are configured to provide image data for processing by an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for contextual AI usage for answering user queries directed to the AI assistant at a first point in time; and the first outward-facing camera and the second outward-facing camera are configured to capture image data associated with a first field-of-view (FOV) of the augmented-reality head-wearable system; and a downward-facing camera configured to capture gestures within a second FOV of the augmented-reality head-wearable system.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR EXTENDED-REALITY SURFACE TYPING
- Publication number
- US20260288249A1
- Application number
- 19562122
- Filed
- Mar 10, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/017 Physics & computingG06F 3/012 Physics & computingG06F 3/0426 Physics & computingG06V 10/12 Physics & computingG06V 20/20 Physics & computingG06V 40/20 Physics & computingMore from Meta 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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