Samsung patents wearable that shows VR content based on where you stand
Samsung describes a wearable device that scans a physical space to create a digital map divided into specific zones. As you move, sensors track your position, and the device automatically launches a virtual reality app tied to the zone you are currently standing in.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes one or more sensors, a display, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors, the display, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to, define a region including a plurality of areas based on a scanning of a physical space, identify, based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors, a position of the wearable device with respect to the region, and based on identifying that the position of the wearable device is included in a first area among the plurality of areas included in the region, display, by executing a software application associated with the first area, a screen provided by the software application on the display to provide a virtual reality.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device comprising: one or more sensors; a display; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors, the display, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: define a region including a plurality of areas based on a scanning of a physical space, identify, based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors, a position of the wearable device with respect to the region, and based on identifying that the position of the wearable device is included in a first area among the plurality of areas included in the region, display, by executing a software application associated with the first area, a screen provided by the software application on the display to provide a virtual reality.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE FOR EXECUTING ONE OR MORE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS ON BASIS OF LOCATION OF WEARABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260320961A1
- Application number
- 19463821
- Filed
- Jan 29, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 10/25 Physics & computingG06F 3/04817 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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