Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,565,770) for a “communication system and method for providing a bionic virtual meeting room.” It involves iPhones, iPads, Mac desktops, Mac laptops, and the rumored “Apple Glasses.”
The invention involves a way to operate a communication system for providing a virtual meeting of at least one first user and at least one second user. It would require at least one first communication device associated with the at least one first user and at least one second communication device associated with the at least one second user. Moreover, the at least one first communication device comprises a first display device and the at least one second communication device comprises a second display device. A virtual meeting space is displayed on the at least one second display device.
Those communication devices could be be computers, mobile virtual reality or augmented reality glasses, tablets or smart phones that could be communicatively coupled for example over a network, like the internet. Apple says the main area of application of such virtual realities lies in the field of entertainment and games, but that it would be desirable to make use of such virtual realities in other fields, “especially in the field of human interaction.”
By the way, Apple Glasses are the rumored augmented reality/virtual reality headset Apple is believed to be developing. Such a device will arrive this year, next year, or 2021, depending on which rumor your believe. It may or may not have to be tethered to an iPhone to work. Other rumors say that Apple Glasses could have a custom-build Apple chip and a dedicated operating system dubbed “rOS” for “reality operating system.”
