Human Interface Designer News Today

Yesterday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to Vision Pro, and more specifically, to visionOS that Apple generically describes as electronic devices that present three-dimensional environments, via the display generation component, that include virtual objects.

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a new iPad updating button that relates to spatial arrangements of one or more virtual objects in a three-dimensional environment. The new multi-functional button could in fact be Apples Digital Crown extended to a future iPad.

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to methods of moving objects in 3D environments in an XR Headset, on future Macs and iDevices, specifically an iPad using both eye and hand-tracking gestures.

In 2019, Apple acquired IKinema, an amazing company that produced technology that mimicked full body avatar movements and detailed facial expressions. Our report presents a video of that amazing technology. Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled "Presenting Avatars in Three-Dimensional Environments." Where the patent gets really interesting is when they describe filming a user (actor) on an animated movie set.