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In addition to their VR headset with force touch gloves, Apple may be planning on an innovative new Group FaceTime function compatible with iPhone, iPad, Mac as well as their upcoming mixed reality headset. A recently uncovered patent reveals that this version of FaceTime utilizes gaze technology that engages users directly in a unique way.
Currently, FaceTime calls enlarges the user’s face on-screen, but the person they’re talking to remains static looking at their front-facing camera. Group FaceTime has the person addressing a person based on their gaze, or whoever they are looking at on screen. If wearing a mixed reality headset, this would be done virtually.
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In Apple’s patent FIG. 11 above, Apple describes how multiple cameras within their future Headset will be able to capture the user’s face for a FaceTime conference call and present a virtual head that could turn in direction of the one speaking at any given time,” according to Patently Apple.
