[jeffool]

No one can expect this to stand. A cursory glance at the Wiki gave me "In 2005, the Liteye HMD was introduced for ground combat troops as a rugged, waterproof lightweight display that clips into a standard US PVS-14 military helmet mount." That's actually on the field a year before Apple even applied for this patent.

[_djo_]

This does not patent HMDs, it only patents a way to deal with peripheral vision in stereoscopic HMDs. In fact Apple's patent explicitly describes existing HMDs, which have actually been around for decades.

[ralfn]

Apple are currently using slide-to-unlock to block certain products from selling.

Did you ever expect that to stand? I think we should be assume the worst now..

[nitrogen]

Looking further back for potential sources of prior art, I seem to remember seeing a picture of and/or reading about a very early stereoscopic head-mounted display that used two ultracompact CRT displays. However, given the mixed bag of Apple's recent successes and failures, combined with the general ham-handedness of the patent system, anything is possible.

[mtgx]

So why was this patent granted in the first place? Is there no filter whatsoever. Big companies can just get their patents automatically approved? Because it sure looks like that's how it goes.

[saket123]

Looking at past, i can't say that it won't stand. Software industry will pay price for this mindless patent abuse in worse ways.