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Apple Researching Laser-Based Head Mounted Display

Sure, but what about those of us with a bad eye? My left eye got pretty well ruined by a drunk driver eight years ago, which makes things like 3D movies a wash for me. Ditto these glasses, should they ever come.

I'm glad ipods are commonplace nowadays, as maybe if theye iGlasses ever did come into being, the kids in elementary school wouldn't be quite so mean as they were to me... back in... when was it? 24 years ago? Obviously I still bear scars from it. :p ;)
 
Stupid Apple, I'm voting negative! We all know they don't know what they are doing. They should just shutdown before it's too late.:rolleyes:
 
slffl said:
Stupid Apple, I'm voting negative! We all know they don't know what they are doing. They should just shutdown before it's too late.:rolleyes:
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This is exactly what Apple should be doing, and they know it.

The drawing looks hokey, but you know the actual product (if it was ever created) would look stellar. Thing I love about crazy patents like this is that Apple keeps innovating . This product might not make it to market, but certainly technologies discovered while creating it will find their ways into other products.

If you don't keep coming up with ideas, you run out of good products. Hey Microsoft, you paying attention?
 
looks 80s......

damn we aint in 1984 dah!

make a deal with Oakley™! they already do a bluetooth headset-goggles.....

THIS would be sick!!
 
mozmac said:
This is exactly what Apple should be doing, and they know it.

The drawing looks hokey, but you know the actual product (if it was ever created) would look stellar. Thing I love about crazy patents like this is that Apple keeps innovating . This product might not make it to market, but certainly technologies discovered while creating it will find their ways into other products.

If you don't keep coming up with ideas, you run out of good products. Hey Microsoft, you paying attention?
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Of course Apple needs to keep expanding its patent portfolio to keep others from owning technologies they could potentially infringe upon. If Apple engineers think, "Hey this is quite far out but what if..." Apple registers the idea just in case. It does not mean they are actively developing a product, just that they reserve the right to do so at such time that such technology becomes appropriate. And the patent drawings must be crude so as not to give away to the public cool industrial design.

These goggles may be the next Nike+Air platform. :rolleyes:
 
riverfreak said:
How about a surgeon getting real time images or vitals? Driving a car with GPS? Drinking coffee and reading the paper? Okay, so the last is a bit contrived...
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+1000

I've been waiting forever for a motorcycle helmet with a true HUD. Why can't i have my tach, speedo, lap times, and nowadays a GPS map in visor of my helmet?

I know it'd be expensive, but I'd be fully willing to pay for it.
 
Too me this is freakish. glasses that display images, also has a laser sensor? Given the fact that game makers are already working on games to emit and sense brain waves leaves me to worry heavily. We are living in the last days before the rapture and tribulation - if this stuff ever comes out, next will come mind control. No Thanks. I like to control my computer, not my computer controlling me (oh wait I spend 12 hrs+ a day on a computer - so I guess it already does). But in all seriousness no thanks. this could lead to more advanced technology where someone could chose for you what you see (due to the laser sensor).

plus, there are enough morons around getting into accidents driving while talking on their cell phone, watching DVD's while driving (saw someone recently with a LCD screen mounted in their visor), and texting while driving. This would total impair your vision. about the only use I see is someone in an operating or emergency room who is not next to their computer and needs rapid information - but we already have small handheld wireless computers for that.
 
slffl said:
Stupid Apple, I'm voting negative! We all know they don't know what they are doing. They should just shutdown before it's too late.:rolleyes:
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Apple knows what it is doing and makes great products. Personally, I think they should stick to computers, ipods, iphones, iTV, and a couple more consumer products and then beef up its enterprise computer image.
 
MrCrowbar said:
Well, it certaily looks cool:


Too bad iPods don't have the processing power to do this kind of 3D visuals. The Mac Pro would be closer, but still too weak. ;)
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You are assuming that it needs to render the 3d in real time. the iPod would only need enough processing to display 2 movies at the same time, one for each eye.
 
Man gets Nintendo Virtual Boy

Man plays virtual golf

commuter train

yeah, we have seen this. There is a reason we are all not were things like this.
 
The time has come

I have been predicting this product for over 12 years now. More recently, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone last year, I thought, sounds cool, but what I really want is an EyePhone. The diagram shown is ludicrous - Microvision has already developed Color Eyewear with a built-in retinal-scanning laser. Of course Apple would design a product that people would want to wear. It would have the same cachet as those white iPod headphone cables, and the same intuitive interface as the iPhone.

The main thing is that the display would not cover your whole field of view (unless you wanted to watch a video on a 3D virtual big screen). It would instead superimpose images over what you are watching: display data, like numbers (eg. your bank account), arrows showing directions, news tickers, etc. It would be situationally aware (GPS plus accelerometers) for true augmented reality. As a guitarist, it would be great to have the words up in the air in front of me. As an amateur astronomer, it would be great to see sky atlas info superimposed on the sky. Add some kind of Wii-like device, or hand sensor, and it could become really interactive.

I am not at all surprised that Apple is already well on the way to producing the Next Big Thing.
 
Possible good stock buy per Head Mounted Display

I have been an unhappy stock owner for over ten years of a company called Kopin. Symbol is kopn. Anyways some day and I think soon this company will respect its shareholders and also begin earnings worthy of me posting this comment here. Post is relevent because Kopin supplies our military with Head Mounted Eye Wear and also already supplies equipment for Eye Wear on market which is Apple related: Go and search Kopin yet caution the insiders seem to be ones making the money in past yet company is now changing = my opinion. I am hoping Kopin is a part of whatever Head Mounted Display Apple may or may not be Researching...:rolleyes:
 
new technology

Have I missed the introduction of some new technology that allows VR goggles to work with just a simple screen and no optics? That's what's seems to be implied here by suggesting you can see normally when there is no image, and no one seems to question it.

The eye can't focus on an image an inch away, so somehow a virtual image has to be created further away. In the VR goggles I've seen (including those myvu goggles someone linked to), a small image is formed with a normal LCD screen of some kind, and viewed through a converging lens (like the very low-tech view-masters). That's why they're so bulky. Even if the screen goes transparent when there is no image, the lens won't let you see the world normally.

The only kind of screen I can think of that forms a virtual image without optics is a hologram, and that requires a reference beam. I don't think that technology has come this far yet, or am I wrong?

Unless or until this sort of thing is invented, the notion of using contact lenses for VR, as someone suggested, won't happen.
 
just plain funny

jawporta said:
Who the hell want's to walk around with those things on, who would want to watch a video where you can't see what's happening around you? Besides using it while in bed watching porn I don't see this selling well. Notice the other ones don't sell either. Why? Because you can't see and you look like a dork.
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Forget the technology, I just can't stop chuckling over this comment! So funny!
 
im sure the whole concern about "looking like a dork" while wearing these things came up when portable audio was a new thing. can you imagine being one of the first persons walking around in public with ugly huge headphones on your head with wires coming out? hopefully the viewing devices used in future portable visual media will not be as ugly as we fear, but the concept is definitely something to expect in the near future.
 
I reckon it should be called iEyes™

And what happens if you need to wear glasses to view video? It could get very messy unless they have a separate lens in front of the video lens.
 
Antares said:
Like it or not, this is the future. We will all be wearing our computers one day. The displays will be beamed directly into our eyes. This headset is merely the first step.
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Well here's hoping we figure out how to beam ourselves to work before we get TV shows beamed into our brains. People texting while they drive is pretty bad but catching up with last night's ballgame while trying to thread an SUV onto the freeway takes distraction to a whole other level.
 
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