Imagine the situation. Your team calls you for a weekly review, using a VoIP-based tool such as Slack,Facetime, Skype or Whereby. Everyone connects little by little, then the conversation starts, and more and more people start talking... It's not the definition of a successful meeting, of course, but it's more than common.
Faced with such a situation, today, we try as best we can to concentrate on thevoiceof a person, but it is always a juggling task which requires a certain ease, and it only takes a few less hearing points to quickly be lost.
An innovative solution
Applehas just filed a patent which presents a device resembling headphones. Its particularity? It is capable of modeling in real time the position of the different participants in the call around each of them. Understand that, virtually, by turning your head, the sounds made by each person will follow your movement, as if you were really together.
The concept of the device thus resembles the definition of theaugmented realitythat we know via headsets like the Google Cardboard or the HTC Vive... Except that this time it's not about what you see, but what you hear. Ingenious, isn't it?
Attractive, this idea remains nothing less than a simple document, for the moment. However, it is possible that Cupertino is working on its development internally. As a reminder, the newAirPodsPro feature a system capable of attenuating ambient noise andits family of headphones places the Californian manufacturer at the top of its market.
