Apple applies for patent on head-tracking media display system

New video game system for iPod touch!

Turn your head into a HoloDeck, and your iPod touch into a Wii-like controller!

You think the cheesy backgrounds in iChat are fun? Imagine what these goggles can project? (and in 3-D!)

The "in a theatre" bit is a red-herring to throw you off. It's a non-specific example of how you would see the holograms "in front of you" and you can bob your head around them, stand up to see over them, etc. If they made it sound like a video game, they would show too many cards. It's better to explain what the goggles DO than what they are FOR.

Balls, Apple is trying to patent this METHOD of head tracking. Combine this with a serious graphics processor and a GPS receiver, and you've got one very cool (and functional) E/VR (Enhanced/Virtual Reality) component. Read William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" for a hint of what something like this is capable of.

Imagine it together with the Wii controller... :)

But... I know to look places on the big theater screen because I see them in my peripheral vision. This would be more like watching a movie through a periscope.

Don't crop it... give me a wrap around display that repositions based on my head movement. (granted, looking at the edges would crop the opposite side... but you know what I'm getting at. Or do you?)

Yeah, I saw something similar at Brookstone, but the final picture size wasn't any larger than an iPhone screen, really. If they could make a viewer that works like this, I'd buy it.

Wow, if Apple can finally be the company to make one of these devices that actually works right, it'd be pretty awesome. I've wanted one for ages but it seems like they're all both expensive and terrible.

Apologize in advance: Nice! it's an eyePod!

BTW, balls, head tracking isn't new.

Hooray for stealing other people's hardwork: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Apple: The new Evil Empire.

too bad they'll never make it