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Magic Leap's New Patent: Achieving Important Product Milestones

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2016-10-25 15:32

Nanjing Huaxun News Today, Magic Leap applied for a new design patent from the U.S. Patent Office, "a virtual or augmented reality helmet with adjustable interpupillary distance."

The function of adjustable interpupillary distance is an important part of VR/AR head display. VR/AR devices send images to each eye, and being able to correctly position these images can ensure clarity and comfort for the user.

For example, the HTC Vive head shows the rotation button at the bottom right. When wearing the head, you can turn this button to adjust the pupillary distance. During the adjustment process, the head will display numbers to show your current settings. If you have already measured the eye spacing, you only need to match the numbers.

In addition to the pupil system, the Magic Leap patent also describes a more stylish head shape than we have seen before.

As can be seen from the patent chart, this is the most ergonomically designed product appearance we have seen Magic Leap so far. In their previous patents, the display product prototype is very large, and the mask-style head display is more similar to other competitors (Microsoft HoloLens and Meta2).

According to Magic Leap's explanation, the early huge system patents do not represent their final product design. So maybe this slim patent is the same, but Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz said such a sentence that we are still looking forward to-"We have just achieved some important product development milestones."

While there is little likelihood that the patent will actually match what it shows, making an AR device so slim and sleek that getting people to use it in the real world is a huge challenge. But the patent image shows that Magic Leap is actively thinking about this issue, according to Nanjing Huaxun, a US patent company.