Apple was just awarded a whole mint of patents by the USPTO . But one stands out in particular : a 3D display and tomography system . Wave your hands and the arrangement picks up your movement . Sort of like the Xbox Kinect . Or , uh , exactly like the Xbox Kinect .
The system of rules described in Apple ’s letters patent would use a projector with a scanning beam that picks up your movements via a pass receiver , shown as a petty gimmick . Your campaign are transferred to the system and a substance abuser can interact in a virtual distance using their physical structure astheir only input gimmick :
To be effective , it is also important that such devices be capable , when desired or necessary , of economically but effectively and precisely providing feedback to the user . Thus , such devices should incorporate audio and/or visual mechanisms for reporting to the user the burden and results of the 3D input .
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Apple does point out that the projector could be used to show holographic imagery , something the Kinect does n’t currently do — well , formally anyway . Think Minority Report meets Kinect .
https://gizmodo.com/creating-3d-holographic-videos-with-microsoft-kinect-5689787
The patents also show Apple ’s intention to engage the technology in a wide range of applications including medical diagnostics , entertainment , trajectory simulation , robotics , play , and ( everyone ’s preferred 90 ’s cant ) virtual realness . Microsoft currently uses the tech to make out - of - shape people dance in their aliveness room .
What does this all mean , though ? If you ’d ask a year ago , I would ’ve said at spoilt it think that Apple would n’t want much more than some licensing fee out of this . But given how sharply the company ’s gone after its Android contender ? A little harder to say . [ Patently Apple ]
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