Apple reveals their work on a Dynamic Foveated Pipeline that Renders and Processes VR Headset images
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to systems, methods, and devices for rendering images for simulated reality with a varying amount of detail. More specifically, methods for processing an image in a warped space.
Apple's patent appears to have been one that they may have inherited initially when they acquired Metaio, leaders in Augmented Reality, hologram technologies and Thermal Touch. The lead inventor is noted as being Tobias Eble, Apple's Software Development Manager that came to Apple via the Metaio acquisition where he was the Director of Mobile development. Another sign it was a Metaio patent is that Apple cancelled the entire set of 34 original patent claims and replaced them with 19 new patent claims without the patent being a continuation patent. And thirdly, in most Metaio patents, they emphasize the term "Simulated Reality" over the terms AR or VR that Apple uses in their original patents on this subject matter.