Better VR Hearing

Adding additional sensors in AR cold lead to specific new application areas.  Spatial Audio could add to maintenance capabilities when linked to machine learning.  Also that Facebook continues to be interested in 'smart glasses' direction.  Perhaps not superhearing though. 

Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing

It could improve VR headset audio, too

By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy  in TheVerge

 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 https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/facebook-reality-labs-research-future-of-audio/  about what the team calls “perceptual superpowers” — AR systems that figure out what you’re trying to hear, then amplify it and dampen background noise. Combined with spatial audio features, the device creates the aural equivalent of a hologram overlay in a pair of glasses.  ... "