Sony patents cloud gaming that puts characters in your room
Sony describes a system where a server runs a video game and sends specific character data to a user's device. This allows an augmented-reality headset to display those game characters inside the user's real-world space, such as a living room, without changing the original game code.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, systems, and code can provide enhancements that can make video games more immersive. An example can extract one or more characters or other 3 D models from an executing game program, transform them to an alternative space, and render them in the alternative space for viewing using an augmented-reality headset or other display device. This can allow a user to play a game with game characters in the user’s living room or other space. This insertion of virtual characters into a user’s real-world space can make the game very immersive. Embodiments of the present invention can accomplish this without changes to the underlying game program.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: with a central processing unit of a server, executing a gaming program; with an intercept circuit of the server, detecting an Application Programming Interface (API) call; and if the API call is for at least one game asset in a first set of game assets, then, with the intercept circuit, transmitting the API call to a client device; otherwise ignoring the API call.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- STREAMING A GAME BASED ON A CLOUD EXECUTION OF A UNIVERSAL GRAPHICS ENGINE
- Publication number
- US20260315916A1
- Application number
- 19647567
- Filed
- Apr 14, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/355 Human necessitiesA63F 13/335 Human necessitiesA63F 13/55 Human necessitiesMore from Sony 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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