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Playtest Program: Selection

The mysterious NSO Playtest Program got another patent. US20250312694 describes a system in which the player can intuitively select multiple objects in a virtual space by walking around them.

Drawing from patent US20250312694: FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a non-limiting example of a second stage of a player character PC's action of surrounding terrain objects Lt using a selection tool object OBJ so as to subject the terrain objects Lt to a predetermined process
Drawing from patent US20250312694: FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a non-limiting example of a third stage of a player character PC's action of surrounding terrain objects Lt using a selection tool object OBJ so as to subject the terrain objects Lt to a predetermined process
Drawing from patent US20250312694: FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a non-limiting example of a more detailed change of a shape of a selection tool object OBJ when the selection tool object OBJ surrounds terrain objects Lt

Previous patents and Furukawa quote regarding the Playtest Program here.

[Originally posted on 2025-10-09 Pacific Time]