It seems future Vision Pros could have full body avatars in extended reality environments. Apple has filed for a patent for “Progressive Body Capture of User Body for Building an Avatar of User.”
About the patent filing
The patent filing generally relates to providing a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a user of an electronic device and, in particular, to systems, methods, and devices that progressively capture data representing an actual appearance of a user for creating the 3D representation of the user. In it Apple notes that, in certain circumstances, a representation of a user (e.g., avatar) are pre-built using simple to relatively complex design interfaces.
However, pre-designed interactive avatars are not realistic depictions of the user operating the electronic device. Apple wants users of the Vision Pro to be able to create more realistic, and full-body, avatars.
Summary of the patent filing
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that progressively capture data representing an actual appearance of a user for creating a 3D avatar of the user. Image sensors at a user’s electronic device may capture images (or other sensor data) of different portions of a user’s body over time. Images and other sensor data that is captured initially or at a given time may not represent all of the user’s body. Thus, in some implementations, the progressively captured data provides representations of additional portions of the user’s 3D avatar over time.”
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