Apple has filed for a patent (quantity US 20230258944 A1) for “digital units with liquid lenses.” It entails serving to these with imaginative and prescient issues use the upcoming Imaginative and prescient Professional.
The US$3,499 (and up) Spatial Laptop was introduced at June’s Worldwide Developer Convention. Nevertheless, it received’t go on sale till early 2024 — and, then, apparently in restricted portions.
Clearly, the Imaginative and prescient Professional can have lenses. Customers will view photos via the lenses from eye bins. In response to Apple’s patent submitting, the lenses could also be tunable liquid lenses. Every lens could have a lens chamber. The lens chamber of the lens could have inflexible and/or versatile partitions that type optical lens surfaces.
Actuators and/or pump and reservoir programs could deform the lens surfaces in response to manage alerts from a management circuit to tune the lens. Every liquid lens could have oil or different liquid within the lens chamber for that lens.
Throughout operation, a person could view visible content material corresponding to digital actuality content material or augmented actuality content material via the lenses of the head-mounted machine. To accommodate customers with several types of imaginative and prescient (nearsightedness, farsightedness, and so on.) and/or to show photos at totally different picture distances (e.g., to create digital photos in numerous picture planes), the lenses could also be tunable liquid lenses.
