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Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing – The Verge
FRL Research, Facebook’s AR / VR division led by Michael Abrash, has revealed new research on using smart glasses to help users hear better in crowded places.
It could improve VR headset audio, too
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A new Facebook experiment shows how sound could play a major role in augmented reality. Chief scientist Michael Abrash and his team at FRL Research (formerly Facebook Reality Labs) released details today about what the team calls perceptual superpowers AR systems that figure out what youre trying to hear, then amplify it and dampen background noise. Combined with spatial audio features, the device creates the aural equivalent of a hologram overla…
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