Apple Patents Augmented Reality Display, May Be Building A VR Headset (roadtovr.com)

An anonymous reader quotes an article from Road to VR: Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. In this case it's a transparent, high field of view display which looks to be aimed at the augmented reality sector and, alongside other mounting evidence, could indicate Apple is preparing to enter the immersive technology race sooner rather than later... Anticipation that the company is working on 'something' AR/VR behind the scenes at Cupertino has been stoked by a series of company acquisition and staff hires. Most interestingly however are the trail of patent applications made by Apple.
This week's new patent specifies a "Peripheral Treatment of Head-mounted Displays" to deliver an image to the wearer's eyes through a transparent display medium.

Comments

Please explain

[Okian Warrior]

I would imagine so. Not that there's too much wrong with that. Except an abomination upon the eyes of our Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ!

The apostle Paul was gay.

Please explain how our saviour could find gayness an abomination, yet still accept him as an apostle.

Re:Please explain

[gtall]

There's no record of Jesus and Paul ever meeting and it is doubtful they did seeing as Saul used to go around persecuting Jesus freaks before he become Paul.

Jesus saw himself as reforming Jews. I don't think homosexuality came up very often but then again Jesus ran around with 12 men.

Re:Please explain

[drinkypoo]

Jesus saw himself as reforming Jews. I don't think homosexuality came up very often but then again Jesus ran around with 12 men.

...and a whore, who has mostly been written out.

Re:Please explain

[sittingnut]

        The apostle Paul was gay.

        Please explain how our saviour could find gayness an abomination, yet still accept him as an apostle.

    Jesus saw himself as reforming Jews. I don't think homosexuality came up very often but then again Jesus ran around with 12 men.

...and a whore, who has mostly been written out.

when 'atheists" attacking Christian religion and its doctrines have to resort to absurd claims and arguments, and logical fallacies, like the above, atheists have clearly lost the argument.
fortunately not all atheist are intellectually bankrupt, ignorant, and dishonest, as the above.
   

Too bad Steve's not alive

[93 Escort Wagon]

He had reality distortion down pat.

Re:Too bad Steve's not alive

[thegarbz]

He had reality distortion down pat.

We don't need Steve, we have the USPTO for that.

And ?

[Space cowboy]

Apple patents a lot of things. It's a big company, sure there'll be people at Apple working on AR/VR. There'll also be people there working on colour-coded mouse buttons... There's also the somewhat-nuts situation of "hey we should absolutely patent this in case we ever need it in the future, and we don't want someone else to patent it first".

Personally I think you should have to have demonstrable progress on anything you patent on a yearly basis until it makes it to the market. Also, the whole idea of patents as a tradeable commodity is nuts. If it has to be tradeable, make the patent lifetime be cut in half for every trade...

Re:And ?

[Space cowboy]

It doesn't have to be tradeable for the protections to stand. It just means the original person/company-if-it-was-an-employee that had the idea, and who filed the patent, now has the legal protections and can therefore attempt to attract investment that the patent encourages.

The idea of selling the patent to someone who has (a) no intent to manufacture or execute on the idea, and (b) simply wants to prevent anyone else from using the idea without paying some sort of (usually, after the fact, and punitive) licensing fees is what is counter to the original idea of what a patent would provide.

Intellectual property can be a thing - there ought to be some reward for working hard and creating something, but patents don't have to be considered normal intellectual property, they can be either a non-tradeable subclass, or simply defined otherwise.

Augmented reality?

[ai4px]

I wore a VR headset at a trade show once (Dayton Hamvention) that showed NTSC quality video on two translucent displays. You could snap a cover on to block out the view of "reality".... so what the heck are they patenting??????

not interested in VR at any price

[swschrad]

heck, I can't take in all of reality...