This is very awesome. I think Apple has the capability of kickstarting the HUD market and taking it mainstream better than Google can. Hopefully Apple can produce a product that looks like regular sunglasses that the mainstream would consider wearing daily. The biggest problem with Google Glass is that only geeks will wear them and they'll never be considered 'cool' until they can miniaturize the tech to fit into normal frames.
Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display
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Re: Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display
#32If Apple turns around and sues Google using this patent, I think it will be time to unplug completely and join the people in the mountains looking to escape EM radiation. And really, they had to add CRT displays to the patent? Seriously Apple, CRT? Did Apple figure out a magical new way of getting "retina" resolution with a millimeter-long tube that can somehow feed the entire field-of-vision of the person wearing it…
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Re: Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display
#33This is poor from Wired, there's nothing in this patent that would seem to represent a threat to Google Glass. After all, this is not in any way a patent on Head-Mounted Displays as a concept, as those have been in use in militaries since the 1980s, which Apple's patent references. The patent actually refers to an apparently novel method of handling peripheral vision in stereoscopic HMDs, in order to remove the 'tunn…
I agree. The title of the patent, at least how it's being picked up in the press, makes it sound threatening to the Google Glass, but I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass. I think Google already has a bunch of patents like these: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57434403-76/google-patents... I remember reading a few posts like these about Google's new patents for Google Glass.
> "I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass"
The independent claims of the '859 patent (1 and 17) both specify stereoscopic displays. Inventions can only infringe a patent if they, at a minimum, include all the elements specified in a patent's claim.
Google Glass has a single display. It can't possibly infringe.