Disney Creates High-Tech Charms, Adds Drones to VR, and Harvests Phone Batteries in This Week’s Patents
Disney Enterprises, Inc. applies for a substantial number of patents each year. These cover all areas under the Disney umbrella, from theme park attractions, to video games, to information-gathering technology […]
Disney Tech Could Let You Take Part in a Friend’s VR Experience Using a Cell Phone
Experiences today are all about being interactive, and most successful games advertise the ability to play with friends from around the world. Virtual reality technology has some difficulties when it […]
VR That Responds to Your Biology in New Disney Patent
A patent application has been published today by Walt Disney Enterprises, Inc. for technology that could very well find its way into future parks and entertainment experiences: In an effort […]
New Patent Shows Disney Developing Moving Floors for Virtual Reality Attractions
Disney is working on a number of ways to allow guests to enjoy full freedom of movement in a open virtual reality environment, without accidentally walking into walls or other […]
Virtual Reality Short Film ‘Cycles’ Will Be Released at the 2018 SIGGRAPH Conference
Cycles is an innovative virtual reality (or VR) short film being produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studio. This new short film is set to debut between August 12-16 in […]
Disney Patents Focus on Private Information Sharing Online and Real World VR Recording
While the details of two new patent applications just published by Disney Enterprises, Inc. may seem highly technical, their subject matter can still give us some insight into the company’s […]
Disney Opens New StudioLAB to Develop Innovative Storytelling And Animation
Disney recently announced the opening of The Walt Disney Studios StudioLAB as the company’s next step forward in animated storytelling. This brand-new tech hub will focus on developing innovative tools […]
Disney Developing a Virtual Reality ‘Force Jacket’
According to Variety, Disney is working with a research and development team from MIT and Carnegie Mellon University on a brand new virtual-reality experience. The new experience comes in the […]
New Animation and Virtual Reality Tech in This Week’s Disney Patents
Disney develops new technology at a near constant pace, and what projects they are working on give us not only an idea of their invention process, but also a glimpse […]
New Disney Research Project Translates Written Scripts Into Virtual Reality Previews
Whether live action or animated, the finished story you see on screen takes countless hours of effort before it’s fully formed. Developing a written script into an engaging visual concept […]