Amazon Working on Augmented Reality for the Living Room
- Company seeks lower-cost source for virtual projections
- Patents reveal Amazon's ambitions beyond the Echo speaker
An Amazon patent outlining how to use computer projections to transform a room into a virtual setting that responds to the user’s senses.
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Amazon.com Inc. is trying to lower the cost of augmented reality to bring a technology normally associated with futuristic military training and video-game conventions to living rooms.
The Seattle-based company on Tuesday received two patents that outline a set of technologies that would project a digital world into someone’s room and let them navigate it by moving their bodies, or using some form of camera or headset to interact with it using virtual reality.