Apple is planning a futuristic headphones that will make it feel like people are in the room with you during phone calls
Apple has applied for new patent and now it has been granted a patent for headphones that could make group phone calls feel much more natural by virtually placing the voices of callers in the room around you.
Apple calls it Intelligent augmented audio conference calling using headphones. Thos new headphone’s calling system would be able to pinpoint the location of a caller in a conference room, and then create a virtual room based on the listener’s current environment.
One it has crated this virtual room, the calling system would be able to make the caller’s voice sound as if it were coming from the direction in which the person would be sitting if the caller were present in the same room as the listener. The person who will be listing the call the call would be able to rotate his or her head toward the person speaking to make the conversation feel more natural.
The goal of the technology, according to the patent, is to make it easier to identify the person speaking on a conference call.
When we have multiparty conference calls they often have callers participating from different locations which may be all over the world, in patent we can reads. When it come’s calls which are without video feedback, it is really difficult to identify a speaker. Most of the time, when callers can’t be identified or heard, interaction during such conference calls may be awkward.
In the drawing accompanying the patent shows a listener wearing over the ear headphones while participating in a conference call.
Usually Apple files patents for new technologies, regardless of whether or not they ever result in future products. We think it’s highly unlikely we’ll see brand new headphones or earphones from Apple that can spatially position audio signals in the room around you, after looking the full document it provide’s further evidence of Apple’s interest in augmented reality technology.
Apple is also planning to release a headset capable of both augmented and virtual reality in 2021 or 2022 that would be designed for video games, virtual meetings, and consuming video, according to our insider. The company might add three dimensional camera sensors capable of digitally recreating environments to iPhones and iPads next year, according to Bloomberg, likely signalling the company’s next big push into augmented reality.
Tim Cook who is Apple CEO has also been a vocal proponent of the technology in recent years. During Q1 earnings call in 2018, for example, Cook said that he sees AR as being profound.You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook for all latest tech news.
