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Apple Researching Laser-Based Head Mounted Display
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Glasses that double as a monitor are nothing new, even cars have HUDs,
but a lighter version like this will help the geek-borg factor with a more discrete solution. .
Still the future may include a lot of lonely geeks locked in their own world, isolated and neurotic with total immersion in sound and video or gaming while out in public.
But for a user who has restraint, this could be great.
but a lighter version like this will help the geek-borg factor with a more discrete solution. .
Still the future may include a lot of lonely geeks locked in their own world, isolated and neurotic with total immersion in sound and video or gaming while out in public.
But for a user who has restraint, this could be great.
They need to rig it so that the eraphone is integrated to the glasses so we don't have four wires.
A few years back I invented the "entertainment bucket" it was a plain old 5 galon bucket you can buy at Home Depot except it has an LCD screen and speaker inside. You place it upside down over the user's head and then secure it with straps under the arms Parents would buy these for kids so it would keep them quiet and ocupied. I was thinking of selling these to the airlines to be used as "perks" for 12 and under passengers. But if these Apple glasses become popular it will be hard for me to sell my buckets.
A few years back I invented the "entertainment bucket" it was a plain old 5 galon bucket you can buy at Home Depot except it has an LCD screen and speaker inside. You place it upside down over the user's head and then secure it with straps under the arms Parents would buy these for kids so it would keep them quiet and ocupied. I was thinking of selling these to the airlines to be used as "perks" for 12 and under passengers. But if these Apple glasses become popular it will be hard for me to sell my buckets.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that having white iPod cables dangle out of your glasses is incredibly weird? 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)
This could be 3D, right? A screen for each eye.
This could be 3D, right? A screen for each eye.
But what if Apple get some well known and trendy designer you put his logo on the glasses?
This is not 100% new. Helios has a scuba dive mask that displays data on the lens. I've also seen a system that surgens can that display medical images from MRI and the like over a patent's body giving the doctor a kind of "x-ray vision". The same system was used by airplane mechanics so they could see inside the skin and eliminate the common problem of removing the wrong access pannel.
Would it be anymore weird coming out of your earbuds, oh wait ...Is it just me, or does anyone else think that having white iPod cables dangle out of your glasses is incredibly weird?
If it looks like a normal pair of glasses then it will become normal.
Not any weirder than wearing a bluetooh phone earpiece. Plus, patents typically describe a possible use case scenarios, things that may be, not must be included in a final product. Augmented reality devices and wearable displays have been investigated in medicine and aviation (not to mention the military) for a while. Good intro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
I'd drop the iGlasses and dub it iSee
I'd drop the iGlasses and dub it iSee
me too.
but technology has come a long way since then. be interesting to see whatever might come of this, at least from a geek standpoint.
I think Apple already has time machine technology and got this from 2036. This my friends, is the future.
Before people get carried away, lots of companies encourage their employees to file patents because it builds an IP portfolio for them. This doesn't mean that the company is actively researching this technology, it might just be that some employee thought it was a good idea and the higher ups agreed so a patent was filed.
Ah yes...this fits in to what I believe will be... "iPhone Virtual"!
Just component that was missing from the whole concept.
Just component that was missing from the whole concept.
+1 to that, I would love to have some daily glasses that I could switch between videos and lightly shaded sunglasses.
And if it is just lasers or light emissions, it could probably travel through a small fiber optic cable. I'm sure Apple or some other company could manage to make audio and visual cables that were the same thickness as current headphone wires.
Where's the excitement guys/girls!?!??! This is nerd DREAMING!!!
To me, this is something I've dreamed about for sooooooo long! I only wish I was more scientifically oriented and a bit less artistically so and I woulda done it myself (yeah right)
Personally, I think a wireless approach is called for - 3g wifi or something integrated into the next ipod/iphone - whereby the user has an attachment on the glasses.
For example, my prescription glasses have magnetic "clip-on" sunglasses... I propose an 150 GB SSD iphone, with magnetic clip-on attachment, integrated wifi, 3-d with constant H.U.D. and have a laser projected keyboard in the lower portion (that's invisible to anyone else)... Thereby, one could access intarweb data, personal health monitoring, stock quotes etc. Maybe even a rear view mirror. Hell, lets add micro-video/still camera to catch those contractual/legal or goof ball youtube moments.
Things like this make me crazy excited about immersive/interactive arts.
The downside - the quiet voice warning of the great collective Borg we would then become.
Ok, now even further - night vision/low light/using the video camera zoom to see stuff far away in small quadrant of the viewing zone.
Man... this would be utterly incredible!!
The first name I thought of....iI - redundant. The second - iSquared...uh..
Nevermind, let's let marketing get that one... such cool potential here... as long as it isn't clunky and technologically stunted - push it Steve!
To me, this is something I've dreamed about for sooooooo long! I only wish I was more scientifically oriented and a bit less artistically so and I woulda done it myself (yeah right)
Personally, I think a wireless approach is called for - 3g wifi or something integrated into the next ipod/iphone - whereby the user has an attachment on the glasses.
For example, my prescription glasses have magnetic "clip-on" sunglasses... I propose an 150 GB SSD iphone, with magnetic clip-on attachment, integrated wifi, 3-d with constant H.U.D. and have a laser projected keyboard in the lower portion (that's invisible to anyone else)... Thereby, one could access intarweb data, personal health monitoring, stock quotes etc. Maybe even a rear view mirror. Hell, lets add micro-video/still camera to catch those contractual/legal or goof ball youtube moments.
Things like this make me crazy excited about immersive/interactive arts.
The downside - the quiet voice warning of the great collective Borg we would then become.
Ok, now even further - night vision/low light/using the video camera zoom to see stuff far away in small quadrant of the viewing zone.
Man... this would be utterly incredible!!
The first name I thought of....iI - redundant. The second - iSquared...uh..
Nevermind, let's let marketing get that one... such cool potential here... as long as it isn't clunky and technologically stunted - push it Steve!
I thought they changed their name last year from Apple Computer to Apple, Inc.?
Why would they use the old corporate name in a new patent application?
Well... I could see adding a camera to my belt back & as I walk down the busy city street I would be able see behind me... Sort like a rearview mirror... Say goodbye to pickpockets hello butt woppin'... Maybe catch a flick afterwards streeming wifi @ starbucks!!
I thought of the same. 3D is highly possible especially with synchronized lazer beams. This is a smart move from Apple.
lol. nice.
I think the idea is pretty cool, as long as they don't look like they do in the patent picture, and it would be even cooler if they made a bluetooth version so you didn't even have to have wires.
I think we've seen the future, and the future is 3D porn.
Glasses with wires don't seem so silly now, do they...
You have no idea how long it takes to write, file and process a patent...I thought they changed their name last year from Apple Computer to Apple, Inc.?
Why would they use the old corporate name in a new patent application?
Absolutely brilliant! Let me just say, that the glasses and the bucket will be serving entirely different markets. You'll have plenty of parents who want to stick buckets on their kids heads, regardless of the glasses...