Back when I was working in a small VR company (about 4 years ago?) ML was granted a bajillion of very abstract vr related patents (in the vein of apple's famous

Back when I was working in a small VR company (about 4 years ago?) ML was granted a bajillion of very abstract vr related patents (in the vein of apple's famous "square device with rounded corners" one). I remember one about mapping physical objects to virtual ones in position, with an example of selecting a random object on a table and being able to use it as a mouse, and another about interacting with virtual creatures through AR that was obviously inspired by the (then) popular pokemon go. Given the suspicious lack of demos except for closed doors events and silly CGI trailers, our guess back then was that the whole thing was somehow going to be a scheme to become some sort of patent troll of the emerging field - which would make giants like google want to be in - coupled with using the hype of getting investment by the big guys to increase it's value. Nowadays, I still have no idea what happened in there.