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‘Apple Glasses’ might enable you to draw in a computer-generated reality environment

Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,937,215) for “techniques for enabling drawing in a computer-generated reality environment” that involves the rumored “Apple Glasses,” an augmented reality/virtual reality/head-mounted display.

A computer-generated reality (CGR) environment refers to a wholly or partially simulated environment that people sense and/or interact with via an electronic system. A CGR environment can be based on different types of realities, including virtual reality and mixed reality. 

An electronic device optionally detects a user’s real movements and projects and simulates those movements within the CGR environment. Apple apparently wants users to be able to draw “virtually” with its Apple Glasses.

Here’s the summary of the patent: “The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing an interactive computer-generated reality environment for creating a virtual drawing using one or more electronic devices. Specifically, the described techniques provide a user with a computer-generated reality environment, which can be based on different types of realities including virtual reality and mixed reality, for creating a virtual drawing on a drawing surface within the computer-generated reality environment. The computer-generated reality environment provides the user with a realistic and immersive experience while creating the virtual drawing.”

When it comes to Apple Glasses, such a device will arrive this year or 2022, depending on which rumor you believe. The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) thinks Apple will at least preview it before the end of the year. 

It will be a head-mounted display. Or may have a design like “normal” glasses. Or it may be eventually be available in both. The Apple Glasses may or may not have to be tethered to an iPhone to work. Other rumors say that Apple Glasses could have a custom-build Apple chip and a dedicated operating system dubbed “rOS” for “reality operating system.”

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.