According to reports, a recently disclosed patent on Apple’s AR headset shows that Apple is studying how to manipulate virtual controls in the real world. In the future, the wearer of Apple’s AR headset can display any surface as a touch screen, which can perform Some basic operations.
In fact, this patent named "Method and device for detecting touch between a first object and a second object" was filed as early as 2016, but it has not been exposed until now. Apple believes that this method of overlaying real-world objects to present controls is necessary.
Apple wants to turn any surface into a touch screen.
In this patent, Apple solves a problem related to "how people wearing AR glasses interact with the virtual environment they see."When we use an iPhone or iPad as an AR viewfinder, users usually tap the screen to interact with objects displayed on the screen. But what if you wear AR glasses? The same task is obviously very troublesome. Through additional interactive hardware, such as gloves or finger sensors, it is indeed possible to interact with the AR environment, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed, and it is not natural enough.
Differentiate the display image by infrared heat induction
Apple’s idea is to detect when users touch real-world objects through infrared heat sensing. This method allows AR glasses to visually project controls onto real-world objects, and when users touch these objects, through perception Heat conduction when touching an object to react.
In fact, it is an open secret that Apple is developing AR/VR head-mounted devices. It was originally expected to be available in 2020, but due to some other reasons, it may be postponed to 2021 or even 2022 or 2023. Although no one can be sure whether Apple will integrate this technology into future products, this insight is enough to make us look forward to one day that the scenes in the sci-fi world can be realized in the real world.
