Although Americans have been dreaming of having similar devices for years Google Glass, it's only this year that a company mustered the courage to launch something on the market, but we're not talking about an extraordinary product. A new product is included in the same category described by to the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), in a patent published today, those from Cupertino thinking of a possible competitor for Google Glass. In the image above you have presented the possible future product of those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and we are talking about a device similar to a pair of ski goggles, having implemented two screens on which multimedia content, even 3D, can be displayed.
A goggle system for providing a personal media viewing experience to a user is provided. The goggle system may include an outer cover, a mid-frame, optical components for generating the media display, and a lens on which the generated media displayed is provided to the user. The goggle system, or head mounted display may have any suitable appearance. For example, the goggle system may resemble ski or motorcycle goggles. To enhance the user's comfort, the goggle system may include breathable components, including for example breathable foam that rests against the user's face, and may allow the user to move the display generation components for alignment with the user's eyes. In some embodiments, the goggle system may include data processing circuitry operative to adjust left and right images generated by the optical components to display 3-D media, or account for a user's eyesight limitations.
Unlike Google Glass, Apple's product would allow users to focus their lenses to fit a possible prescription for a pair of eyeglasses, this can be done through an iDevice. Still using an iDevice, the content of this device could be viewed, the connection between it and the mobile terminal being made with the help of a simple cable. Although Apple doesn't describe this in the patent, the glasses could probably retrieve notification information from iDevices, record photos or videos, and display location information, some of which are available in Google's product.
The interesting part is that this patent was entered for registration in 2008 and is based on the technologies of a product from 2007, so we are not talking about something recently developed.
