Apple Patents An Eye-Tracking 3D Display, Battery Powered Mobile Hotspot
Apple recently filed two patents, one for a display that can show 2D and 3D images and sports an eye-tracking feature and another for a compact battery powered mobile hotspot.
The first patent, titled, Spatially interactive computing device, is of a display that can render 2D and 3D images without requiring users to wear glasses or any other type of special headset.
The company, as mentioned in the description of the patent, would use the eye-tracking to render different images to the different viewers simultaneously.
Apple mentioned that the technology can be used in something like an iPad where content consumption could be entirely changed. Beyond just watching movies in 3D with friends, viewers looking at an image displayed in 3D, like a map or picture of an object, would be able to look at it from different angles, as if they were moving around a virtual object, SlashGear noted.
The second patent is of a 'Handheld device' that describes a small, cylindrical object, sans-button. It would come in two halves that twist together. One half would contain the circuitry and antennas needed in a hotspot while the other half would be the battery.
Turning on and off would only require the twisting the halves.
