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Apple patents Google Cardboard in search of use for iPod
Apple files for a patent that looks extremely similar to the basic concept for Google Cardboard. It would appear that Apple has prepared for the eventuality that virtual reality lust would hit the iPhone community. What we're looking at today is a couple of patent applications that essentially have Apple owning the idea of a face and ears-mounted display carrier, a headset, that can use an iPhone as its display. Sound familiar? It certainly should.
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Unless I'm mistaken, Google Cardboard is simply a piece of cardboard folded into a shape that supports a phone on your face.
The patents discussed in the article, however, describe very specific ways for a phone/iPod-like device to interoperate with a headset via the microphone/power connectors. I can't see how this could be interpreted as "Apple patents Google Cardboard."