Apple Glass could clean themselves — and change the way you see the world

Apple Glass could clean themselves — and change the way y'all see the globe

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More potential Apple tree Glass features accept appeared in Apple patent filings, including the likes of self-cleaning capabilities and a 3D sound feature that could let you navigate by sound.

Apple Insider reported that Apple applied filed with USPTO for a organization titled "Audio-Based Feedback for Head-Mountable Device." This would utilise multiple microphones that notice sounds, even those your ain ears might struggle to pick upward. And the prospective smart glasses could provide visual indicators that direct the user to the source of the sound.

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The rumored Apple Drinking glass isn't named anywhere. Merely this feature was clearly conceived with smart glasses in heed, as the lenses could show these visual notifications as part of a heads-up display.

The idea of using microphones that can detect sounds outside your normal field of hearing also suggests a navigational purpose behind this feature: helping you notice your style around familiar places by using sound cues too as visual references. That said information technology could also have potential as a hearing aid, providing visual warnings of more nearby sounds like traffic or shouting.

Further to this, an older patent indicated the Apple Glass could use onboard speakers to produce realistic sound furnishings in tandem with visual elements. So the glasses could potentially fifty-fifty play synthesized versions of sounds the user can't hear, but the microphones can find.

Apple has as well apparently looked into making the Apple tree Glass cocky-cleaning. However another USPTO filing, titled "Particle Command for Head-Mountable Device," describes an "optical module that removes particles from an optical pathway and captures the particles so they practice not interfere with the user's view."

This sounds even more than futuristic than 3D audio, and the patent doesn't fully explain how such a module would clear clay from the Apple Glass' lenses. The closest it comes to is mentioning an actuator device that would "vibrate the brandish element," so it would most probable work by shaking detritus off the Apple Drinking glass by vibrating the lenses.

It all sounds very fancy, simply and so these are merely the latest bleeding-border features rumored for the Apple Drinking glass. Others accept included Zoom-style backgrounds for the display and augmented depression-light vision. Meanwhile, one leak actually went the other fashion, suggesting Apple Glass would use an iPhone screen in a like style to Google Paper-thin.

At this betoken, it'due south arguably a safe bet to say Apple currently is working on the Apple Drinking glass. But nosotros'll need to wait and run across which features terminate up making information technology onto the finished production.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Newspaper Shotgun, merely earlier that was Audio Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he as well wrote computing and gaming news for TG, commonly relating to how hard information technology is to detect graphics card stock.