You never know what Apple is going to do next, so lately people have taken to sniffing out their patents to find out. Turns out they have a big improvement to video conferencing in mind (ok, it has way further impications than cool new iChat video effects)…

Great minds all over the world from acedemia to corporate R&D are wracking their brains to create the next big leap in imaging: 3-D projection that doesn’t require glasses! Oh, it can also (that is, it one day will also) interact with the viewer like a funhouse mirror and probably function pretty darn well as a video game input/output device wrapped up in one: AppleInsider | Apple researching autostereoscopic 3-D display hardware