Apple applies for head tracking patent, Johnny Chung Lee says ‘you’re welcome’

Pablo Picasso is quoted as saying, “good artists copy and great artists steal.” Good thing the quoter was Steve Jobs then, because the latest Apple patent application to go public looks very much like something Johnny Chung Lee pieced together with a Wiimote way back in 2007 . Filed for in June 2008, the new patent is for a system tracking the location of the user’s head and responding to his movements in a fashion that should generate a realistic three-dimensional viewing experience sans those pesky glasses . We’ve got video of Johnny’s setup after the break, and as he himself describes it, the idea behind a “desktop VR” is to unbound imagery from the screen surface and to make your monitor or TV act like a window unto whatever is being displayed

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Apple applies for head tracking patent, Johnny Chung Lee says ‘you’re welcome’

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