Apple Patents AR Technology Converting Any Surface Into Touchscreen
23 April 2021, 10:04 am Apple wins a patent that combines augmented reality (AR) with thermal technology to turn any surface into a virtual touchscreen. The recently approved AR technology patent, which would use thermal cameras built into AR glasses, could go to market as early as 2022. Apple's Thermal Touch: Creating Touchscreens From Almost Everything Apple's patent titled "Method and Device for Detecting a Touch Between a First Object and a Second Object," is made possible through the tech giant's acquisition of the German AR software maker Metaio in 2015. The Apple patent, which was gra...
Source: techtimes.com