Picture safety goggles where instead of glass, you slide an iPhone over your eyes. That was Apple’s first idea for the Apple Vision Pro and it will not let it go.
Detail from the patent showing an iPhone being slotted into a headset
After the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple admitted almost conspiratorially that for years it had filed hundreds of headset patents in plain sight. But there’s one it keeps coming back to, and it was originally about the earliest, while it now also looks like the cheapest.
All the way back in 2010, Apple applied for a patent called “Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic Device with Display.” It was then granted the patent in 2015.
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