ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,786, issued on Dec. 16.
"Methods and systems for real-time saccade prediction" was invented by Yashas Joshis (Montreal) and Charalambos Poullis (Beaconsfield, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigation of a virtual environment (VE) can mean navigating a VE that is spatially larger than the available Physical Tracked Space (PTS). Accordingly, the concept of redirected walking was introduced in order to provide a more natural way of navigating a VE, albeit with many restrictions on the shape and size of the physical and virtual spaces. However, prior art techniques have limitations such as requiring eye-tracking increasing costs ...