John Bishop, writing over at Making Star Wars, takes a closer look at the potential of more sophisticated lightsabers being present at Galaxy’s Edge when it opens next year (NEXT YEAR PEOPLE!!) and focuses on a series of tweets from Len Testa that gives more details.
New Disney patent application yesterday is latest sign they’re trying to build lightsabers for Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge. Uses augmented reality, so maybe a helmet involved?https://t.co/KeX9gz4Xh7 pic.twitter.com/YmbsAXS8Yy
— Len Testa (@LenTesta) May 19, 2018
And – you knew this was coming – here’s the patent on how they’ll record and sell you a replay of your Galaxy’s Edge AR experience:https://t.co/57iMQPeYer https://t.co/dteN08xeJg
— Len Testa (@LenTesta) May 19, 2018
Bishop then looked deeper into the patent instructions.
[0029] According to the exemplary implementation shown in FIG. 3, AR accessory 340 is depicted as a virtual sword, such as a virtual light sword, for example, having virtual sword blade 341 with length 346, and having activation zone 348. It is noted that, as used in the present application, the term “activation zone”, as applied to AR accessory 140a/140b/340, refers to a volumetric region of space in AR venue 126 in which AR accessory 140a/140b/340 can achieve scoring strikes or hits against a user or object within AR venue 126. For example, in the exemplary implementation shown in FIG. 3, activation zone 348 of AR accessory 140a/140b/340 may be a volumetric region surrounding a user of AR accessory 140a/140b/340 determined based on length 346 of virtual sword blade 341.
For more detail, head on over to Making Star Wars.
