You've seen them in a multitude of science fiction movies and surely a good handful of police series set in the future: the movement of screens and applications just by making a gesture in the air, without touching them. The future could be close to Apple's hand.
A new patent published by Apple and collected by the portal Patently Apple explains how its next devices could integrate a new technology based on the recognition of 3D movements; that is, you would not need to touch the screens to move from one place to another on your mobile device.
Currently, the latest models of Apple have incorporated the "TrueDepth" technology, which recognizes up to 30,000 virtually invisible face factions, in such a way that allows devices to identify each person to, for example, unlock the terminal or confirm a payment.
If this patent were finally taken to a practical environment, we could find that the future that comes out in all those series and films would have arrived, finally. And it is that the practical applications of this technology could go from making a drawing in the air and that was picked up by the iPhone or, for example, its use in the language of interpretation of signs. Or, better yet, you could handle applications like Google Maps or WhatsApp just by making some gestures in front of the screen.
At the moment it is only a patent and it would not have to materialize, but when Apple has registered it is because, surely, it will be thinking about carrying it out in the not too distant future. We will have to wait.
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