(Credit: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has loggeda patent application from Disney that points toward a gaming console that focuses on 3D augmented reality, which may provide a hint about the company’s reported gaming endeavor, the Toy Box.
The patent application describes techniques underlying a device that can capture a real scene and then augment it, such as taking a picture of a coffee mug on top of a table and then animating the cup. When the user looks at the mug through the device, it will look like a cartoon character, for example. The images included in the patent documents show a handheld device that looks rather like a Nintendo DS.
Could this be the beginnings of the reported Toy Box console? A Disney executive previously described the Toy Box as a console with “extensive mobile and online applications,” with interactions from various Pixar and Disney
Disney seeks patent that hints at gaming console
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