Apple does seem to be a company that is always on the cutting edge, and you can tell as much by the kind of patents that they file. Here we are with a recent patent application that points towards an immersive, adjustable 3D user interface that might eventually see action in future mobile devices that Cupertino rolls out. The patent is known as “Three Dimensional User Interface Effects on a Display by Using Properties of Motion” (don’t you think that this is a mouthful?), where it illustrates how eye-tracking and different sensor data might eventually be used to be the backbone of a 3D user interface, and even better is it will calibrate itself automatically to a user’s positioning and ambient environment.

How does this new 3D interface work? Well, it will utilize data from your iDevice’s compass, GPS, accelerometer and gyrometer in order to calculate your real-time frame of reference. Not only that, your hardware will definitely need a front-facing camera to perform eye tracking, so that it can deliver a far more “realistic virtual 3-D depictions of the objects on the device’s display.” One thing’s for sure – something like this does not seem too likely to make its way to the iPad 3 or iPhone 5 just yet.

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