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📣 ketanmaheshwari

My daughter wrote an essay describing a concept like Apple Vision Pro


My daughter recently wrote an essay that describes a concept that is similar to Apple's Vision pro but with features that could be useful for many communities. She received a scholarship from Oak Ridge National Laboratory for this: https://www.ornl.gov/news/farragut-high-graduate-nia-maheshwari-receives-ut-battelle-scholarship

I was wondering if it is possible to reach out someone at Apple and perhaps request them to consider adding those features?

I can share the entire essay if anyone is interested.

  👤 troymc Accepted Answer ✓
Your daughter could start by reading the 5000+ patents that Apple filed related to the Vision Pro. If her ideas aren't already in those patents (possibly unimplemented in version 1), she should then look at Meta's AR/VR patents, Microsoft's patents, Sony's patents...

And if her ideas really are new, then she should now be so familiar with patents that she can easily write her own. Then figure out how to file those patents with the USPTO, etc... Those patents can then be licensed, sold, or used as core IP in a new company.

If she just wants her ideas to get out there and doesn't care about money... maybe implement them as open source hardware + software, i.e. with liberal open-source licenses? And then publicize the ideas + implementations using YouTube, Tik Tok or whatever the kidz use now.

👤 wmf
Companies don't accept suggestions due to legal liability. She should start a startup and maybe it will be either acquired or copied by Apple.
👤 ftxbro
just a heads up this post is likely going to the creepy backrooms of algolia https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights