Apple is researching how to make “Apple Glass,” or other AR devices, sense and automatically adjust the ambient lighting around the wearer using HomeKit.There still aren’t all that many HomeKit devices, compared to ones for Google’s Alexa, but Apple may be planning to add one more. A newly revealed patent shows that “Apple Glass,” or any other Apple AR head-mounted display (HMD), could integrate with a user’s lighting.As is typical for a patent, “Dynamic ambient lighting control” describes systems as broadly as it can and so only specifically mentions HomeKit once in its 7,500 words. But the entire patent is concerned with how ambient light can be sensed, and then that information used to appropriately control other devices. Read more…
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