Any Apple device with an accelerometer could determine whether you were pointing at something
Apple has applied for patents over shopping services before, with the idea of buyers being guided through product demonstrations online. However, one newly-revealed patent application wants to cut out that guidance and let you just point as you say “I want that one.”
That’s officially the point of this patent application, and it’s even in the title, “Smart Shopping And Information Collection By Natural Gesture Using UWB.” But patents always try to be as broad as possible, and this time it’s the outer limits of the application’s aims that are the most interesting.
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Apple wants you to be able to just point at things to learn about them