Apple wants you to be able to draw in a computer-generated environment on the Vision Pro. The company has been granted a patent for “techniques of enabling drawing in a computer-generated reality environment.”
About the patent
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’s patent describes techniques for providing an interactive computer-generated reality (CGR) environment for creating a virtual drawing on a drawing surface using an electronic system or device, where the CGR environment provides a user with a realistic and immersive experience while creating the virtual drawing as if the user was creating a real drawing in the real world.
The described techniques enable a user to create a drawing without the need for traditional physical drawing tools. Further, because the drawing is created within a CGR environment, the described techniques allow a user to easily and efficiently manipulate (e.g., change, erase, alter) a portion of a drawing as desired.
The described techniques enable a user to experience creating a virtual drawing within a CGR environment as if the user were creating a real drawing in the real environment, while simultaneously reducing some inconveniences associated with creating a real drawing in the real environment, according to Apple.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract 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.”
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