Will making Terminator-style spectacles help Apple
Found by the sleuths over at TheNextWeb, the patent is titled "Peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays" and includes technology for projecting images to users via twin LCD displays. Much more like traditional glasses than the open-eye camera style espoused by Google, in other words, as suggested by this clever graphic found at Gizmodo:
Source: Gizmodo.
But that's nitpicking. In each case, we're talking about wearable displays. Apple apparently sees just as much merit in this style as does Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who touted a Google Glass prototype via a skydiving publicity stunt at last week's Google I/O developer conference.
To be fair, patents don't always represent product development reality. That may be the case here, too.
On other hand, think about what the money flows mean. The very idea of Apple and Google investing in specs suggests there's going to be more capital allocated to the wearable Internet, and by extension location-specific Web services such as Foursquare and Yelp
Through the looking glass
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