When you’re driving a car, you’re invested with a sense of purpose: stay alert, don’t crash, optimize your route for the fastest and most comfortable experience. But what about when self-driving cars become the norm, and we’re no longer involved in those tasks? You’ll probably want to catch up on work, or play a game to fight the inevitable boredom—two things Apple thinks will be done in VR in the near future.
A recently published patent from Apple delves into this all-too-likely future, and theorizes that VR will be used to not only fight boredom in the car, but also mitigate motion sickness by completely supplanting screens such as laptops and smartphones and actively compensating for motion-related sickness.
