Swipe and point and write
We now know that the Apple Vision Pro is going to be available to buy from February 2, with preorders opening on January 19, but a newly discovered patent suggests that Apple engineers are busy looking to the future of the mixed reality headset.
The patent, spotted by Patently Apple, shows what looks like a giant Apple Pencil. The idea is that the implement could be used to write or draw in virtual space, or to select and manipulate items that exist in virtual or augmented reality.
« A handheld controller with a marker-shaped housing may have an elongated housing that spans across the width of a user’s hand and that can be held like a pen, pencil, marker, wand, or tool, » reads part of the patent application.
