these are totally different devices and use cases.
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the difference is, media consumption devices like this and Occulus (a gaming VR headset) arent designed for walking around in public. theyre for sitting in your study/living room/bed.
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Apple's Work on Video Goggles Highlighted in Newly Granted Patent
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these are totally different devices and use cases.
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the difference is, media consumption devices like this and Occulus (a gaming VR headset) arent designed for walking around in public. theyre for sitting in your study/living room/bed.
it's a patent, not even a product. i cant think of many recent apple hardware products that came out as utter turds. what they do, they do well. every time i see people hand-waving about a patent/rumor on here i wonder how many times this has to be demonstrated before people get it.
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Unlike the Oculus Rift, the Apple headset seems focused on viewing video and would therefore not have a comparable field of view. I hope to be proven wrong about that but for viewing videos, I just don't think that this would be a better experience than watching movies on an iPad screen.
Still, I like the idea of being able to adjust for each eye. The people most likely to use a VR headset are the people who wear glasses because they have to (not for fashion).
Still, I like the idea of being able to adjust for each eye. The people most likely to use a VR headset are the people who wear glasses because they have to (not for fashion).
bingo.
too many kids on here who think theyre experts in everything, including patent law...over simplification is a symptom.
THAT EAR!...
Gone from Google Glasses to Apple Goggles. How about a Darth Vader style helmet with the chest full of blinking buttons?
you do realize youre responding to a patent and rumor, not an actual product, right? apple patents thousands of ideas, but they dont build any of them until theyve completely gelled. like the iphone. and the ipad. and the imac. etc..
youre high. iphone. ipad. retina macbook. ipad airs. mac pros. etc... all incorporate tons of amazing technology and innovation. youre just desensitized to it now. and if you think apple's "iwatch", or whatever it may be since it hasnt been announced, is going to be a clone of samsung's, then you simply havent been paying attention to the world around you the past ten years.
different devices. the glass is entirely different than this. implementation matters. you dont get this.
Google glass haters
For all the fanbois who flamed google glass, how will you justify this monster?
Just keepin' it real.
For all the fanbois who flamed google glass, how will you justify this monster?
Just keepin' it real.
For all the fanbois who flamed google glass, how will you justify this monster?
Just keepin' it real.
can you say..."use case"? google glass -- tools walking around town w/ the optic equivalent of a BT ear piece in case they get a text. this device (or Occulus) -- media consumption device to use in private.
see the difference there?
They do make interesting devices. Something that's interesting is that when they were on the brink of demise, they took real risks. If nothing paid off, they may have gone under anyway. As companies grow, they become seemingly more risk averse.
What irked me was that you took something which only exists as a printed reference, extrapolated that it was the next big thing, then inquired about the potential to litigate based on that concept. If you look through the "what is claimed is" which is meant to quantify the claims, they're quite specific down to the materials used. I'm skeptical because a lot of these things contribute in abstract ways. Just look through a few of the iphone patents in depth. You'll find that many of them do not resemble a phone. Even the company that Apple purchased for some of the touch related patents wasn't directly involved in the design or manufacturing of phones or similar devices.
Or the iPod Vision to go with your iPod Sport (sports wrist band) and iPod Watch.
This could be Google Goggles done right... if you attach cameras to the outside, funnel that video into a CPU that analyzes the video and annotates it with useful information, then delivers that to the eye piece, it could work really well. People wouldn't need to wear any other form of glasses, because this could correct for any eye problems, or do away with glare or blinding lights or anything else that tends to impair a naked human eye.
Also, night vision. Heat sensors. Xray vision. So much awesomeness is possible.
Also, night vision. Heat sensors. Xray vision. So much awesomeness is possible.
No thank you!
I can't see this kind of thing becoming widely desired. I mean seriously, who wants to where something on their face? I wouldn't.
Except that's a piece of junk. The LCD is hard to see and the interface is too laggy. I've owned every iteration of it so far hoping they improved it, but alas that has not changed.
Every company patents every imaginable thing that could potentially be useful in the future. However, you're on MacRumors so you are only going to hear about apple patents.
Half the time Apples patent filings are Red Herrings, designed to throw people off their real intentions. This is a classic example.