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Apple reveals Thermal Touch technology for a future AR Interface that could amazingly transform any surface into a Touch Screen
Back in June 2015 Patently Apple posted a report titled Apple Acquires Metaio Creator of Thermal Touch - A New Augmented Reality Interface for Wearables. One of Metaio s greatest inventions that Apple has acquired relates to Thermal Touch which is a vision of the near future for wearable computing user interfaces. By fusing information from an infrared and standard camera, nearly any surface can be transformed into a touch screen.
The technology is possibly intended for use with Apple s future head-mounted displays (MR headset or glasses) and makes use of the fact that touching an object heats it up slightly and provides a thermal signature. When combined with overlaid information in the display it allows everyday objects to become controls or for controls to be overlaid on surfaces.
When New Jersey-based professor Daniel Kurz learned of the ongoing uproar at Collin College, he felt compelled to write in support of three professors the college had recently let go.
The college had decided to not renew their contracts and a debate soon erupted. The professors and their supporters accused Collin College of violating their free speech rights and effectively firing them. Each had spoken out about the college in one way or another.
One professor, Lora Burnett, had been let go after mocking former Vice President Mike Pence online. But something else caught Kurz’s eye. He learned the other two professors, Suzanne Jones and Audra Heaslip, had been involved in organizing the college’s professors and staff.
Apple s First Industrial Augmented Reality Camera System Patent was published today
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple s first industrial Augmented Reality camera system that relates to a method of and system for projecting digital information onto real objects in a real environment. Apple describes projective AR applications that could be used for prototyping architectural design, car manufacture and more. Whether Apple will be able to use this invention in context to Project Titan is unknown at this time.
In Apple s patent background they note that augmented reality (AR) systems could enhance a real environment by directly visually augmenting the real environment by computer-generated digital information. For example, such digital information is virtual information for augmenting visual impressions of the real environment. Typical applications are known as, for example, so-called projector-based AR, projective AR or spatial AR.