“Apple continues to express interest in developing affordable technologies that could in the near future deliver an easy-to-use augmented reality platform to its iOS devices like the iPad through the use of split-screen software techniques or transparent display screens, company filings reveal,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
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“In one filing published for the first time Thursday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and discovered by AppleInsider, Apple notes that despite strong academic and commercial interest in (AR) systems, many existing implementations are complex and expensive, making them unsuitable for general use by the average consumer,” Oliver reports. “As part of its filing, Apple proposes that iPads could feature a split screen display that can be used to display an object or subject matter such as a live video feed from the tablet’s camera on one side of the split, and computer-generated imagery identifying elements in that video feed on the second side of the split.”
Much more in the full article, including Apple’s patent application illustrations, here.
If it’s anything like synchronised swimming, I think I’ll leave it for the chicks to use. I mean who gets synchronised swimming? Don’t you think the nose plugs make them look like Lindsay Lohan?
So you’re saying Ironman star Robert Downey Jr. is like girl or that Tom Cruise in Minority Report shouldn’t have been messing with those transparent displays! …….lol I think you’re WRONG and so do millions of people all over the World!
lol..i suspect he is pretty much an older man…ai type things are still down the road for a lot of people, though i suspect some medical types, engineers, graphic designers, visual effects designers (who most of my friends claim to be) would play around with the concept. a former gf was into sych swimming and i have to say, seeing 12 pairs of legs up and down and up and down……
I want an just-for-fun x-ray app to match-move a 3D skeleton with a person on camera. I want an app I can hold up & data mine like Hardison as I glide through a speed-dating progressive dance. I want Apps to play Robo-Cop and Terminator and Max Headroom. I want a plant-identification app, a survival app, and any number and manner of travel guides and maps. And, for my pre-alzheimer relative, a ‘Who am I? How do I get home?’ app. (And, I guess, a ‘how-do-I-use-this-what-the-heck-is-this-thing-anyway?’ app.)
Brilliant.
Ditto
There is a plant identification app, at least for the iPad. It’s called LeafSnap. I haven’t looked to see if one is available for iPod/iPhone yet, though. That was one of the major apps I had been waiting for, as well. I haven’t yet used it, but I am really excited for the possibilities.
‘I want a plant-identification app….’
http://www.leafsnap.com
free on iPhone and iPad
Possibly, as almost always, only research type of project.