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This is poor from Wired, there's nothing in this patent that would seem to represent a threat to Google Glass. After all, this is not in any way a patent on Head-Mounted Displays as a concept, as those have been in use in militaries since the 1980s, which Apple's patent references.

The patent actually refers to an apparently novel method of handling peripheral vision in stereoscopic HMDs, in order to remove the 'tunnel' or 'box' effect and increase the comfort of wearing HMDs for a long period of time. At present this is something which no existing stereoscopic HMD (or indeed, Google Glass) handles to my knowledge.

It's also worth noting that existing stereoscopic HMDs, while impressive, have been known to cause discomfort such as headaches in some people when worn for more than a few hours.

So there doesn't appear to be any link to Project Glass which, it should be noted, has also been patented by Google. This is just linkbait.

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I agree. The title of the patent, at least how it's being picked up in the press, makes it sound threatening to the Google Glass, but I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass. I think Google already has a bunch of patents like these:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57434403-76/google-patents...

I remember reading a few posts like these about Google's new patents for Google Glass.

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> "I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass"

The independent claims of the '859 patent (1 and 17) both specify stereoscopic displays. Inventions can only infringe a patent if they, at a minimum, include all the elements specified in a patent's claim.

Google Glass has a single display. It can't possibly infringe.