Apple has filed for a patent for “Devices With Adjustable Displays.” It seems to involve the rumored “Apple Glasses” and a lamp-like device.
About Apple Glasses
Apple will launch its smart glasses by the end of 2026, reported Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Most pundits refer to them as “Apple Glasses.”
Gurman says they’ll be comparable to the Meta Ray-Bans and Google’s Android XR glasses. The “Apple Glasses” are expected to include cameras, microphones, and AI capabilities, and be able to take photos, record video, provide translations, give turn-by-turn directions, play music, facilitate phone calls, offer feedback on what the wearer is seeing, and answer queries. However, there won’t be augmented reality capabilities, he adds.
About that lamp device
As noted by MacRumors on February 6, Apple has prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements as shown in a post and video on the Apple Machine Learning Research website.
The video shows the non-anthropomorphic robot interacting with a human based on their hand gestures and more. It played music and helped with various tasks in addition to serving as, well, a lamp for illumination.
Apple says its research shows that robots should move elegantly and use movement to express its internal states to humans during interaction. Apple says it conducted a user study to compare robot movements driving by expressive utilities against only functional ones in various task scenarios.
About the patent
The patent involves electronic devices that may include virtual or augmented reality headsets with displays having optical elements that allow users to view the displays. A head-mounted device such as a pair of glasses, goggles, or other eyewear may include one or more displays in a head-mounted housing. The displays may be movable between a first state in which the displays are in a horizontal field-of-view mode and a second state in which the displays are in a vertical field-of-view mode.
The displays may be rotatable or expandable between the first state and the second state. The displays may be moved by one or more motors and/or by a user of the device. The head-mounted housing may also be movable to accommodate the movement of the displays.
An encoder and/or detents determine positions of the displays, and content on the displays may be modified based on the determined positions. For example, landscape content may be displayed when the displays are in the horizontal field-of-view mode, and portrait content may be displayed when the displays are in the vertical field-of-view mode.
The displays may be rotatable in a single plane or may be rotatable in multiple planes. For example, the displays may be mounted to the head-mounted device housing using a mount, such as a ball-and-socket joint, that allows the displays to rotate in multiple planes.
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