Hyper-Reality 3D Displays and Dynamic Music and Video for Better iPhone Battery Life -- Apple Patent Watch
Tis the season for Apple patents, with both hyper-reality 3D displays, and a dynamic music and video system for better battery life on the iPhone and iPod.
First up, the hyper-reality 3D display -- perfectly timed for the Avatar hype as well, we'll note -- involves changing the perspective of 3D object on the display to match the tracked head position of the user. As MacRumors points out, this sounds similar to what Johnny Chung Lee has previously demonstrated with a Wiimote (see video embedded above).
Next up, Apple wants to track user preferences for volume and other settings and automagically apply them, and de-emphasize or skip songs the user seldom listens to. MacRumors also points out a second patent which would also alert users when there's not enough battery life left to play the movie they've just selected and offer to downgrade the video quality and/or reduce the brightness levels to try and get the whole thing in anyway.
As always, no one outside Steve Jobs knows if we humble consumers will ever see products using these patents, but it's nice to glimpse one of our possible infinite (loop) futures.
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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The music/video playing for better battery life sounds really fantastic!
WOW that was amazing
I guess we'll all be spending a little more time in the holodeck sometime soon.
nice good job
That is amazing. Just imaging what this could mean if it were implemented into future console gaming!?
That video was pretty sweet. I can see the future of that using a camera and facial recognition to do the same thing. They're working on a 3D TVs using prisms or something to spread the same 3D picture out to more than one viewer. Now I really can't wait for the next generation of TV!
Holy shizzles that was awesome!!! Whoever mentioned holodecks was spot on...yah for the future.
Cool vid, imagine the head track with wiimote and balance board all in one game. Immersive.
The battery management sounds good, I hope they can work out a way to use wifi and 3g without draining the battery so quickly.