Oculus, Vr, LLC

Facebook Technologies, LLC

O. I. Corporation, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Clare Regimbal Long

Joseph Patrick Sullivan

Adi A Scheidemann

Gottfried P Kibelka

Peter Wesley Bristol

Joel Bernard Jacobs

Mark W Dassel

Justin W Sokel

Simon K Porter

Boyd Drew Allin

Eric Davis

David Tao

Peter Allan Chase Newbury

Ryan Hamilton Brown

Matthew James Devoe

Markus Wierzoch

Harold Alexander Brown

Michelle L Gendron

John L Loewen

Rong Xu

Mark S McGraw

A pair of handheld controllers with asymmetric tracking patterns for use with a tracking camera. The pair of controllers includes a right-hand controller and a left-hand controller. The right-hand and the left-hand controllers are substantially symmetric with respect to each other with the exception of their respective tracking patterns. A right-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the right-hand controller and a left-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the left-hand controller. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are asymmetric with respect to each other. The right-hand controller includes a right-hand handle portion and a surrounding right-hand ring portion and the left-hand controller includes a left-hand handle portion and a surrounding left-hand ring portion. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are disposed on the right-hand ring portion and the left-hand ring portion, respectively.

Controllers with asymmetric tracking patterns

An audio assembly provides audio content to a user. The audio assembly comprises an elongated body, a negative vent assembly, and a positive vent assembly. The elongated body includes an audio waveguide. The negative vent assembly is coupled to the elongated body and includes at least one negative vent that vents negative acoustic pressure waves generated by a back surface of a transducer coupled to a first end of the audio waveguide. The positive vent assembly is part of the elongated body and is coupled to a second end of the audio waveguide. The positive vent assembly includes at least one positive vent that vents positive acoustic pressure waves generated by a front surface of the transducer.

Headset dipole audio assembly

A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a housing defining an enclosure having an aperture. A is speaker positioned within the enclosure, the speaker having a back side facing an interior surface of the housing and a front side facing away from the interior surface of the housing, a back volume defined between at least a portion of the housing and the back side of the speaker for enhancing sound generated by the speaker. A sound conduit having an end open to the enclosure and extends outside the housing through the aperture. The sound conduit has another end open toward a rear direction to transmit the sound generated by the speaker.

Audio output assembly for a head-mounted display

A handheld controller including a main body having a thumb surface and a thumbstick extending from the thumb surface. A trigger button is positioned on the main body and a handle extends from the main body on a side opposite the trigger button, wherein the handle has a palm side and a finger side. A third-finger button is positioned on the finger side of the handle and includes a magnet mounted thereon. A sensor operative to detect the magnet is positioned inside the handle adjacent the magnet.

Handheld controller with finger grip detection

A method for detecting a user's hand gestures with a handheld controller. The method includes monitoring a first sensor and a second sensor. Each sensor is capable of sensing the presence of the user's thumb. The method further includes sensing the presence of the thumb on the first sensor and then sensing when the thumb is no longer present on the first sensor. A time period is monitored beginning when the thumb is no longer present on the first sensor and ending when the presence of the thumb is sensed on one of the first sensor and the second sensor. Once the time period exceeds a threshold time value, a thumbs-up gesture is registered.

Method and apparatus for detecting hand gestures with a handheld controller

A strap system for a head-mounted display includes a first flexible non-stretchable section to wrap around the head-mounted display and extend laterally towards a user's ears, a second flexible non-stretchable section to extend from a first side of the first flexible non-stretchable section towards the back of the user's first ear and split into an upper portion and a lower portion, and a third flexible non-stretchable section to extend from a second side of the first flexible non-stretchable section to the back of the user's second ear and split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion of the second flexible non-stretchable section substantially mirrors the upper portion of the third flexible non-stretchable section. The lower portion of the second flexible non-stretchable section substantially mirrors the lower portion of the third flexible non-stretchable section.

Strap systems for head-mounted displays

A pair of interconnectable handheld controllers is disclosed. The pair of controllers includes a right-hand controller and a left-hand controller. The right-hand controller includes a right-hand handle portion, a surrounding right-hand ring portion, and a first connector disposed on the right-hand ring portion. The left-hand controller includes a left-hand handle portion, a surrounding left-hand ring portion, and a second connector disposed on the left-hand ring portion. The first connector and the second connector are cooperative to releasably attach the right-hand controller and the left-hand controller together. The first connector and the second connector can be magnets, cooperative hook and loop material, or a ball and socket arrangement.

Interconnectable handheld controllers

A handheld controller, comprising a main body, handle extending from the main body, first and second input controls positioned for engagement by a user's fingers, and a finger detection sensor coupled to the first input control. One or more finger detection sensors are configured to detect the spatial location of the user's finger relative to a surface of the first input control. The finger detection sensor can be a touch capacitive sensor. The handheld controller can have one or more proximity sensors configured to detect the spatial location of the user's finger relative to the first input control.

Handheld controller with activation sensors

Cable retention assemblies for use with head mounted displays are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a head mounted display has a front display module containing a circuit board operatively coupled to the displays and having a first connector. A connection cable with a second connector is releasably connected to the first connector. A cable retention assembly attached to the front display module adjacent to the first connector has a cable receptacle releasably engaging the second connector and retaining the second connector in a substantially fix position relative to the first connector to substantially isolate the first connector from axial or torsional loads applied to the cable.

Cable retention assembly for a head mounted display

A fixed sequence activation handle is described that forces a predetermined activation sequence. Such handles are suitable for use in the delivery of medical devices or for other application that require a fixed sequence of activations.

Forced deployment sequence

A focal plane detector assembly of a mass spectrometer includes an ion detector configured to detect ions crossing a focal plane of the spectrometer and an electrically conductive mesh lying in a plane parallel to the focal plane, positioned such that ions exiting a magnet of the mass spectrometer pass through the mesh before contacting the ion detector. The mesh is maintained at a low voltage potential, relative to a circuit ground, which shields ions passing through the magnet from high voltage charges from other devices, such as microchannel plate electron multipliers. The mesh may be mounted directly to the magnet or positioned some distance away. The detector array may include any suitable device, including a faraday cup detector array, a strip charge detector array, or a CCD detector array.

Focal plane detector assembly of a mass spectrometer

Mass spectrometer systems for measuring mass/charge ratios of analytes are described. A mass spectrometer system includes a vacuum flange, a PCB base plate coupled to the vacuum flange, and an ion optic assembly coupled to the PCB base plate. The PCB base plate may include signal-processing electronics. The system may include an electrical cable coupled to the PCB base plate for supplying power, control, and I/O to the ion optic assembly and the signal processing electronics. Alternatively, a mass spectrometer system includes a PCB base plate and an ion optic assembly. The PCB base plate has a sealant portion and an electrical portion. The ion optic assembly is coupled to the electrical portion. The system may include a vacuum housing for enclosing the ion optic assembly. The vacuum housing is coupled to the sealant portion of the PCB base plate for sustaining a vacuum while the system is in operation.

Optical bench for a mass spectrometer system

A detented encoder, employed for sensing a rotation of a wheel by a user between detent position, and suited for use in a pointing device or other user input device. The detented encoder includes a light emitter, a pair of photodetectors, and a codewheel. Interruption of light emitted by the light emitter and received by the photodetectors is processed by a logic circuit to produce a quadrature signal indicative of the detent position of the wheel. The codewheel is integral to a shaft that is supported at one end by a support bracket connected to the lower case of the device. The wheel rotates the shaft when turned by a user. The shaft includes a plurality of evenly-spaced, longitudinally extending spline teeth. A biasing member or opto spacer is operatively coupled to the lower case and includes a base portion on which the light emitter and photodetector are mounted. The biasing member includes a cantilever portion. A U-shaped slot in the cantilever portion includes a protrusion that engages the spline teeth on the shaft. The protrusion is biased against the splined portion of the shaft, so that as the shaft is rotated, the protrusion moves in and out of spline wells defined between adjacent spline teeth, thereby creating a detent action. The detented encoder also includes a microswitch that is activated by the shaft when a user depresses the wheel. A logic device processes the signal produced by the photodetector to determine the transitions between the detent positions as the wheel is turned.

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Clare Regimbal Long