Those from Cupertino continue to make progress in the development of their smart ring, one of the most recent would allow establishing communication through voice to interact with Siri
After the release of Samsung’s smart ring, Those from Cupertino seem to be interested in having their own and this can be seen thanks to the recently granted patentsThe latter is surprising because it describes the use of multiple rings and the potential use of Siri. The latest patents describe uses related to health and physical activity monitoring, input devices to control Apple products in general from the iPhone to the Apple Vision Pro or future mixed reality glasses. What else could multiple Apple rings be used for?
Apple wants to put a ring on our finger, and not exactly a wedding ring
According to recently published patent information (via Patently Apple), Reference is made to a smart ring that includes “near field communications circuitry”. One part would record health-related actions, for example taking medication. Reference is also made to hand gestures such as simply pointing in a direction and recognising other devices to control them.
The user uses the smart ring to record the location of an electronic device
The most interesting thing is that Apple wants us to do different activities and record them by using more ringsThe concrete example is that one of them can detect our voice and other sounds in such a way that it can find out and establish an operating context, in addition to another ring that can communicate with the first and generate “a map of locations of different devices” to be controlled in different ways.
Various Apple rings for different uses
One of the rings would detect our voice so that we could speak to Siri directly. and it would most likely be through a device like the iPhone. Apple’s idea is to have several rings because it would not be possible to implement so many sensors or components to achieve its purposes. Can you imagine using a ring for each finger of your hand?
Talking to a ring instead of a mobile device
Those from Cupertino, for the moment, They do not offer us a broader perspective of use in terms of specific cases and the way in which the rings could be used.We assume this will happen when they are ready to release them to the public. It is difficult to imagine that a user would want to buy several rings to have different functions.here Apple would have to justify why and could surely put them on sale in a package as it does with the AirTags.
An Apple ring that could control one or more devices
What is interesting about this new patent is the use that could be given to Siri. With the changes that are coming for the smart assistant, It would make sense for Apple to want a faster system of communication through the ring. In addition to detecting our voice, with a simple gesture we could summon it and speak to it when we know it is already listening to us. Likewise, it would be a good approach in terms of health care for users who are not interested in having an Apple Watch. Let us remember that the Apple smartwatch is one of the best products for this last purpose.