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Alex Wawro

Apple Vision Pro may let you draw a ‘privacy cloak’ around you and a friend — here’s how

Apple Vision Pro at WWDC 2023.

Word from the U.S. trademark office is that Apple's been granted a patent for a "privacy cloak" feature that allows Apple Vision Pro wearers to have private conversations in a "computer-generated reality" — and who wouldn't appreciate being able to draw up a little privacy cloak among friends?

While there's no guarantee this feature will ever exist or show up in Apple products, the way it's outlined in this patent gives us a better idea of how Apple envisions people interacting inside computer-generated spaces, and that's as naturally as possible.

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