The immersive audio you’ve never heard that could revolutionize virtual reality
Built around a 360-degree sphere, so-called immersive or spatial audio tech is being designed by the likes of Dirac, DTS, Dolby and THX primarily for virtual reality (VR) headsets, but who can ignore the world’s 2.5 billion smartphones? The race is on to produce the definitive format for 3D audio.
Designed primarily for VR, but also for mobile devices, immersive audio has three parts to it.
The first is channels...
The second part of immersive audio is ambisonics.
“Ambisonics are spherical sounds that are captured using specific microphones that capture sound pressures coming from every direction,”...
The third part of immersive audio is audio objects.
An audio object is a mono track accompanied by metadata that specifies the exact position of that sound....
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