Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Ian Erkelens

Kevin James MacKenzie

Mark Terrano

Marina Zannoli

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Jacques Gollier

Lu Lu

Brian M Wheelwright

Douglas Robert Lanman

Robin Sharma

Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai

Afsoon Jamali

Barry David Silverstein

Spencer Allan Wells

Jonathan Robert Peterson

Yang Zhao

William Aaron Nicholls

Christopher Stipe

Larry Richard Moore, Jr

Eugene Cho

John Cooke

Eyeglass devices may include a frame shaped and sized to be worn by a user at least partially in front of the user's eyes, a varifocal optical element mounted to the frame, and an eye-tracking element mounted to the frame. The varifocal optical element may include a substantially transparent actuator positioned at least partially within an optical aperture of the varifocal optical element and configured to alter a shape of the varifocal optical element upon actuation. The eye-tracking element may be configured to track at least a gaze direction of the user's eyes, and the varifocal optical element may be configured to change, based on information from the eye-tracking element, in at least one optical property including a focal distance. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Eyeglass devices and related methods

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to controlling optical parameters at a user's eye using an artificial reality system and tracked user conditions. For example, based on tracked user eye positioning, implementations can adjust the light that enters the user's eye to control an image shell generated at the user's eye. An image shell refers to the way light, that enters the eye, focuses on the retina of the eye. Example properties of an image shell include image shell centration, image shell curvature, image shell shape, etc. A user may focus on an object in an artificial reality environment (e.g., real-world object or virtual object) and light from the object can generate an image shell at the user's eyes. The image shell at the user's eyes can impact the user's vision and/or eye biology.

Controlling optical parameters at a user's eye

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for selectively rendering augmented reality content based on predictions regarding a user's ability to visually process the augmented reality content. For instance, the disclosed systems can identify eye tracking information for a user at an initial time. Moreover, the disclosed systems can predict a change in an ability of the user to visually process an augmented reality element at a future time based on the eye tracking information. Additionally, the disclosed systems can selectively render the augmented reality element at the future time based on the predicted change in the ability of the user to visually process the augmented reality element.

Reducing head mounted display power consumption and heat generation through predictive rendering of content

A method may include identifying, by one or more processors, an object in a field of view of a wearable display, where the object is identified for a presbyopic compensation. The presbyopic compensation is performed by the one or more processors on image data of the object to generate compensated image data of the object. The one or more processors render an image in response to the compensated image data of the object on a display of the wearable display.

Wearable display solutions for presbyopic ametropia

A device includes a light source configured to emit an image light. The device also includes an optical assembly configured to direct the image light to an eye-box of the device. The optical assembly includes a first optical element portion configured to focus a first portion of the image light propagating through the first optical element portion. The optical assembly also includes a second optical element portion configured to focus a second portion of the image light propagating through the second optical element portion. The second optical element portion includes a liquid crystal ('LC') lens having an adjustable optical power.

Accommodation bifocal optical assembly and optical system including same

Growing community of inventors

Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Ian Erkelens