Apple wants you to be able to touch and feel things in AR or VR

It’s not enough to be able to see digital elements in the real world through the Apple Vision Pro, Apple wants a complete sensory experience, including feel.

Detail from the patent showing a hand with multiple sensors on the fingers.
If it’s for a smart ring, Apple wants us to buy ten of them

A newly-granted patent appears to be yet another one revealing that Apple has been researching Smart Rings such as a so-called “Apple Ring.” It comes after recent rumors that such a ring is imminent, and that Apple is pushing to make more wearables including such a device.

Yet “Finger-Mounted Device with Sensors and Haptics,” Apple’s newly granted patent, appears to be less about what you could do with a smart ring, and more about slotting us all into an Apple AR world. Some of the detail definitely describes rings, but most of it is about fingertip sensors.

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