Facebook is quietly building futuristic AR tech — and a new patent filing hints at how part of it might work.
Facebook is thinking about using"cartilage conduction" technology to provide sound without using headphones.
Facebook is quietly developing an augmented reality headset, and recently restructured the team working on the project. Adding sound to virtual reality is pretty straightforward — the user's headset replaces the entire world with virtual imagery, so they can pop a pair of headphones or speakers on to complete the illusion. But with augmented reality, where virtual objects are overlaid via a display over the real world, it's more tricky; users might benefit from added sound, but traditional headphones could block out sound from real life entirely., is to avoid headphones entirely.
— moving hundreds of employees from the research-focused unit Facebook Reality Labs to a standalone product team focused on AR.
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