Apple has reportedly delayed plans for an augmented actuality/digital gadget gadget in a standard eyeglasses former, however a newly granted patent (quantity US 11803060 B1) reveals the corporate continues to be investigating such a product.
Anxiously awaiting the “Apple Glasses” (my moniker, not Apple’s), a the follow-up to the upcoming Imaginative and prescient Professional? Don’t maintain your breath. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says it received’t arrive till 2026 or 2027 on the earliest.
Nonetheless, in January Bloomberg‘ s Mark Gurman mentioned that growth on such a tool had been “indefinitely postponed.” He mentioned that some Apple staff don’t assume that Apple will ever ship the latter. Gurman mentioned that the majority of Apple’s AR/VR group is engaged on the Imaginative and prescient Professional; nonetheless, the idea of AR glasses continues to be being explored, although not at the moment in lively growth.
In regards to the patent
The newly granted patent is dubbed “eyewear with display-optimized lenses” and signifies that the Apple Glasses may double as sun shades. Within the patent submitting, Apple says that standard sun shades use filters that considerably scale back the brightness of show gentle, making it tough for customers to view shows whereas carrying standard sun shades.
The tech big’s concept is for the lenses in Apple Glasses to be optimized for viewing an exterior show and/or for viewing a show in a head-mounted gadget whereas additionally offering solar safety for the consumer’s eyes. The display-optimized lenses might also be optimized for a show that’s a part of the eyewear itself (e.g., a head-mounted show) in addition to an exterior show.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “Eyewear akin to sun shades could embody display-optimized lenses. The lenses could also be optimized for viewing an exterior show and/or for viewing a show within the head-mounted gadget whereas additionally offering solar safety for the consumer’s eyes. The lenses could embody a polarizer and a colour filter which might be designed for a given goal show.
“Lenses which might be optimized for a show that emits linearly polarized gentle could embody a linear polarizer. Lenses which might be optimized for a show that emits circularly polarized gentle could embody a round polarizer. The round polarizer could embody 1 / 4 wave plate and a linear polarizer. The colour filter could have a transmission spectrum curve with peaks comparable to the first colours of the goal show in order that the colour and brightness of show gentle is preserved whereas the brightness of daylight is lowered.”
