Nintendo's new patent shows that Switch 2 may support VR devices

Nintendo’s new patent shows that Switch 2 may support VR devices

According to publicly released documents, Nintendo is applying for a patent to design a virtual reality device

The patent is for an “image display system” in the form of a goggle device. At first glance at the patent images, the device looks similar to the Nintendo Labo VR system. The U.S. publication date of this patent is November 16, 2023, but the first application date for this series of documents is July 26. Strangely, the first filing date of the relevant documents for this patent is March 20, 2019, with Japan listed as the country of origin.

Further analysis of the patent classification and its subcategories revealed that Nintendo VR devices are described as having the following characteristics:

The content that needs to be rewritten is: Head-Mounted Head-Up Display

Virtual camera with parameter changes

Multi-view video system with image renderer

The rewritten content is: augmented reality function and mixed reality technology

Optical system or device with display position adjustment function

Input functions for transferring data

In order to keep the game object or game character in the view frustum, we need to dynamically adjust the virtual camera. For example, you can use a camera to track a character's position

The content that needs to be rewritten is: user-related data monitoring, such as head tracking and eye tracking

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