Facebook needs to Hype the Narrative that they re the leader in Eyewear, present and future, as they prepare for the AR Revolution
On Monday Patently Apple posted a report titled Facebook s CEO Dreams aloud about Smartglasses offering an AR Teleportation Feature by 2030. You could also listen to the interview between Mark Zuckerberg and The Information s Alex Heath on a 47 minute podcast here.
Zuckerberg tells Heath that we re primarily a social media company. The Holy Grail of social experiences is the ability to feel that you re present with another person. Nothing we have in technology today gets close to that with phones, computers or TVs. There s something magical about
Apple makes a major shift to a 12-year-old Invention of a Digital Periodical to refocus it on a Future Foldable Device
Apple acquired a patent about a digital periodical dating back to 2008 from the inventor Harry Vartanian. Then in 2011 Vartanian filed the patent under his company name HJ Laboratories. Patently Apple first reported on this invention the sixth time that it was granted, this time under Apple Inc. Apple has continued to add and modify this invention and in total now has five patents to its credit.
It s clear that Apple saw the potential for this invention/patent down the road, but not until last week did we finally see how Apple has taken a radical shift from its original patent, focusing their new patent claims towards all-things related to a foldable device
The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple yesterday titled "Electronic Device with Intuitive Control Interface." Apple has invented a display system and circuitry that could work with a head mounted device like a VR headset, eyeglasses or an iPhone. Apple s new system will allow a non-geek to set up a wireless home system like a pro
Apple has Advanced their 10-year VR Gloves Project by introducing a new Ultrasonic Detection System
Apple has been working on a VR gloves project since at least 2011. Patently Apple has posted at least four reports covering the progress of this invention (01, 02, 03 & 04). Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published another patent application from Apple relating to this project titled Ultrasonic Force Detection.
Apple s patent application relates to
ultrasonic force detection systems and methods based on propagation of ultrasonic waves in a user s body (e.g., in a user s digit/finger). This is the first time that ultrasonic force detection has been used in connection with Apple s VR glove project.
Two new Head Mounted Device Patents reveal more about Optical Systems used in Augmented Reality Applications
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published two patent applications from Apple that relate to their mixed reality headset. Each patent relates to optical systems with one specifically relating to display adjustment and correction in context with mixed realities that include augmented reality and augmented virtuality.
Apple s first patent application covers a head-mountable device that could include an optical module that provides a display element and/or an optical element that are adjustably mounted.
The display element and/or another optical element can be adjusted by actuation of a mechanism that allows the display element and/or the optical element to move in one or more (e.g., six) degrees of freedom (roll, pitch, and yaw).