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Apple reveals their work on a Dynamic Foveated Pipeline that Renders and Processes VR Headset images
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to systems, methods, and devices for rendering images for simulated reality with a varying amount of detail. More specifically, methods for processing an image in a warped space.
Apple s patent appears to have been one that they may have inherited initially when they acquired Metaio, leaders in Augmented Reality, hologram technologies and Thermal Touch. The lead inventor is noted as being Tobias Eble, Apple s Software Development Manager that came to Apple via the Metaio acquisition where he was the Director of Mobile development. Another sign it was a Metaio patent is that Apple cancelled the entire set of 34 original patent claims and replaced them with 19 new patent claims without the patent being a continuation patent. And thirdly, in most Metaio patents, they emphasize the t
Apple s augmented reality headset could automatically account for the difference between a user s point of view and an attached camera, while peripheral lighting could make it easier for a user s eyes to adjust to wearing an AR or VR headset.
Apple is rumored to be working on its own augmented reality headset as well as smart glasses, currently speculated to be called Apple Glass, which could also use AR as a way to display information to the user. As with practically any other mixed reality headset on the market, there s always challenges that have to be overcome by Apple to optimize the experience for its users.