It would be unbelievable the fight is going to be vicious and the public will 
have to get involved….If indeed Apple has a much better way to continually 
monitor blood sugar and they are prohibited from bringing to market there will 
need to be an outcry of Biblical proportions..

John


> On Jul 31, 2017, at 1:28 PM, tom holloman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The biggest money maker and useful product Apple has ready but may not get 
> past the huge companies selling test strips is the watch reading blood sugar. 
> Billions dollar industry for readers and then expensive strips for life. Just 
> what Medicare pays is tremendous. Every diabetic would buy Apple Watch. 
> Praying it gets approved.
> Tom
> 
> On Jul 31, 2017, at 6:16 AM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This is where we are headed folks, it’s simply amazing….When the new iOS for 
>> the iPhone and iPad comes out in the fall the AR will be built into the 
>> operating system,  and with the AR Kit Apple is providing developers we are 
>> going to experience a massive change in the way we interact with our 
>> surroundings…..Apple is betting heavily on AR, more so than AI.  
>> 
>> If you played the Pokemon GO you have had a small taste of what this 
>> means….my son-in-law and grandson were playing it in our home, the little 
>> guys were appearing in our fireplace, on our table…everywhere in the 
>> house…just think what this will mean if applied to personal and commercial 
>> applications.
>> 
>> If you want to get a bit of the reality of this follow the link, scroll down 
>> to the video and watch an amazing 4:00 minute video…
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Is this Apple's next big product? Tech giant files patent for glasses
>> By Chris Ciaccia  
>> <http://www.foxnews.com/person/c/chris-ciaccia.html>Published July 31, 2017 
>> Fox News <http://www.foxnews.com/>
>> <1501260289461.jpeg>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> As Apple looks to its next big product, the company is increasingly placing 
>> bets on augmented reality, a revolutionary technology that combines the 
>> digital and physical worlds and appears poised to drastically change the way 
>> we experience everyday life. 
>> 
>> Apple has filed a patent 
>> <http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20170213393&OS=20170213393&RS=20170213393>
>>  for an intriguing glasses-style device that harnesses augmented reality 
>> (AR), showing how the technology could work with a device and overlay 
>> information on real world objects. In this case, the technology could be 
>> used in conjunction with a smartphone, but also with “semi-transparent 
>> spectacle or glasses" or both devices in tandem with each other.
>> 
>> For example, the technology could show something as simple as the year a 
>> building was built, or its architectural design. Or it could be much more 
>> involved, potentially overlaying video and statistics on a car's dashboard.
>> 
>> The patent was originally filed by augmented reality software company 
>> Metaio, a startup Apple acquired in May 2015. It was first originally 
>> spotted by Patently Apple 
>> <http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2017/07/apple-patent-reveals-the-exciting-possibility-of-augmented-reality-smartglasses.html>,
>>  a website focused on Apple-related patents.
>> When asked about the patent, an Apple spokesman declined to comment. 
>> 
>> Apple's future
>> 
>> Apple has filed a number of augmented reality patents over the past several 
>> years, but this particular one goes a bit further than the others. It hints 
>> that Apple may indeed launch a pair of glasses, a topic that has been 
>> speculated about for years. 
>> 
>> "I imagine they’re spending a lot of money doing research and development 
>> work around glasses and headsets, and would think we’ll see something from 
>> them in that category over the next few years," Jackdaw Research analyst Jan 
>> Dawson told Fox News via email.
>> 
>> Earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported 
>> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/apple-s-next-big-thing> 
>> Apple was working on a number of augmented reality products, including 
>> digital spectacles.
>> 
>> Apple CEO Tim Cook has talked extensively about the prospects of augmented 
>> reality and its potential. From these comments, it's clear Apple is clearly 
>> placing a large bet on the technology.
>> 
>> In an October 2016 interview with Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, Cook 
>> likened AR's potential to being almost essential to humanity.
>> 
>> "I do think that a significant portion of the population of developed 
>> countries, and eventually all countries, will have AR experiences every day, 
>> almost like eating three meals a day," Cook said 
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkV78RZ73Mw>. "It will become that much a 
>> part of you, a lot of us live on our smartphones, the iPhone, I hope, is 
>> very important for everyone, so AR will become really big." 
>> 
>> Huge opportunities right now
>> 
>> At its June developer conference, Apple publicly showed off its first steps 
>> and impact AR will have, introducing ARKit as part of its upcoming mobile 
>> operating system, iOS 11.
>> 
>> ARKit will allow app developers to "create unparalleled augmented reality 
>> experiences for iPhone and iPad,"
>> 
>> Apple said on its website. "By blending digital objects and information with 
>> the environment around you, ARKit takes apps beyond the screen, freeing them 
>> to interact with the real world in entirely new ways."
>> 
>> In a June television interview with Bloomberg following the conference, the 
>> normally reserved and measured Cook said Apple's plans for the technology 
>> made him "just want to yell out and scream."
>> 
>> With ARKit, Apple has vaulted itself among the leading augmented reality 
>> platforms, opening it up to the hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads 
>> around the world.
>> 
>> According to M&A advisory firm Digi-Capital, Apple, via ARKit, could have as 
>> many as 400 million AR-enabled devices by the end of next year.
>> 
>> The firm said that Apple could "own [the] augmented future," having 
>> dominance and profitability in the four waves of AR: software, hardware, 
>> tethered smart-glasses and stand alone glasses. "Dominance across all four 
>> AR waves looks like it could be the innovation for which Tim Cook is 
>> remembered, and take Apple beyond Steve Jobs’ legacy to make it a 100 year 
>> company," Digi-Capital wrote in a July blog post 
>> <http://www.digi-capital.com/news/2017/07/the-four-waves-of-augmented-reality-that-apple-owns/#.WXsxVITyumx>.
>> 
>> 
>> Big money at stake
>> 
>> The fight for AR supremacy could mean big dollars for these tech behemoths.
>> Digi-Capital estimates that the combined virtual and augmented reality 
>> market could be worth $108 billion by 2021, with AR accounting for $83 
>> billion of that. 
>> 
>> "AR has the potential to one day play a role in Apple's entire product 
>> line," Neil Cybart, an independent analyst who runs the Apple-focused Above 
>> Avalon website, told Fox News via email. "We are talking about everything 
>> from the Mac being used for AR creation to wearable form factors allowing 
>> people to interact and consume AR.
>> 
>> "Pokemon Go," often credited with bringing augmented reality into the 
>> everyday lexicon, has already shown the promise of the riches to come. In 
>> its first three months, it generated more than $600 million in revenue for 
>> its owners and is back as the top grossing app in Apple's App Store, more 
>> than a year after its launch.
>>  
>> Dawson said that ARKit should help Apple's business, saying it will help 
>> separate iOS and iPhone from the competition and "help drive loyalty and 
>> switching over the next couple of years, because there’s really no mass 
>> market competitor out there doing anything similar for now." 
>> 
>> Any hardware would be similar in scale to the Apple Watch, potentially 
>> producing billions of dollars in additional revenue, but would grow over 
>> time, he added. 
>> 
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