Wait am I reading this right? Is this saying that 2 days ago, Apple got approved of a patent on all of AR? Like, what Pokemon Go has been doing since 2016?
Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware
by charcircuit on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:58AM
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No, it is talking about showing nonvisible features as visible.
Like this quest app for visualizing wifi strength in mixed reality.
Or perhaps to refine that, to scoop important patents
Apple is aggressively out there patenting obvious things that have been basic public knowledge / in use for years to try and lock up the field (eg: [0]). You can try and get your own patents but if you aren't strategically dependent on the IP for your own needs it is much easier and quicker to just nuke the field by putting as many things in public as possible so it's much harder for Apple (or others) to retro-patent broad classes of obvious features.
[0] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...