Another new Apple patent has appeared online titled "Smart Augmented Audio Conferencing with
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Many people know that during group calls it can be difficult to determine who is speaking. Apple wants to solve this problem with new technology.
According to the patent, the technology will analyzemetadata during a call and link each participant in the conversation to different places. The user wearing augmented reality headphones will be able to easily distinguish who is speaking at the moment, since the voices will be heard from different directions.
Moreover, the user in such headphones canturn your head to any virtual participant in the conversation, and the voices of other interlocutors will move accordingly. The user wearing headphones will feel as if he is with the participants in the conversation in the same room.
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The images of the patent show a man inon-ear headphones, which means that the technology is being tested on this type of headphones. The technology will also need head tracking, which means there should be plenty of room in the headphones.
In the patent, the main purpose of such headphones is indicatedgroup audio conferences, but the technology can be used for games for a more complete immersion. We have already heard rumors that the company is working on over-ear headphones. Perhaps it will be they.