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Forget about hand gestures, Microsoft has its tongue out at Apple! This isn’t the last pun you’ll read in this article. It’s been a while since Apple unveiled the Vision Pro, running on the VisionOS. Now, VisionOS boasts impressive in-air hand controls, but Microsoft’s patent is proposing a whole new input method – tongue gestures.

With machine learning, the intertial sensor would learn to pick up tongue movements

Yes, you read that right. Microsoft’s patent depicts a future where you control your computer or applications using your tongue. This futuristic patent, reported by Patently Apple, could even be used for typing on a virtual keyboard. The patent acknowledges limitations of current hands-free methods like voice recognition and eye tracking. Their solution? Capitalizing on the precision of the user’s tongue.

The patent details how an inertial sensor would pick up tongue movements, which would then be interpreted by the system. Machine learning would play a role too, with the system being trained to recognize specific tongue gestures. One example describes a user interacting with a virtual keyboard. By scanning letters with their eyes, gaze tracking would identify the intended letter and highlight it. A specific tongue gesture, like a tap on the upper teeth, would then enter that letter. Another gesture, like a tap on the left cheek, could be used for backspacing.

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This technology is still in the patent stage, but it exhibits into how big companies like Microsoft are spending huge amounts of money on their R&D divisions to shape the future of human-computer interaction. It might seem strange now, but who knows? Maybe future generations will be tongue-tied to their devices in a whole new way (sorry).

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