All items tagged with spatial audio (247)
3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player
December 22, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

3D Sound Labs and VideoLAN Partner on 3D Audio for VLC Media Player

3D Sound Labs, the 3D/VR Audio French specialist, and VideoLAN, the editor of the world's renowned VLC media player jointly announced their collaboration to bring world-class experience to 360° video and 3D audio content in the upcoming version of VLC. The release 3.0 of VLC introduces 360° video and high-quality 3D Audio rendering. It supports multichannel and well as ambisonics audio content up to 3rd order ambisonics.
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Introducing Exponential Audio Advanced Surround Reverbs With 3D Option
November 9, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Introducing Exponential Audio Advanced Surround Reverbs With 3D Option

Exponential Audio from Salt Lake City, UT, the company behind software plug-ins such as NIMBUS, R4 and PhoenixVerb, announced two brand new surround reverb plug-ins called Stratus and Symphony. The new reverbs address both an opportunity and a challenge - the ability to be more creative than ever before with post sound now offering new surround formats and yet the ongoing debate about intelligibility.
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Where Sound and Image Meet: AES New York 2017!
October 6, 2017 by Audio Engineering_Society

Where Sound and Image Meet: AES New York 2017!

The Audio Engineering Society New York 2017 convention will be co-located with the independent NAB Show New York 2017 event. In an adjacent exhibition hall, NAB Show New York exhibitors will be on hand with the latest video and distribution hardware and related sessions. Exhibits-Plus or All Access AES New York registration includes access to both exhibition halls. Naturally, the 143rd International AES Convention also features great content in audio for picture applications!
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AES Technical Committee Group Formed to Explore Audio for New Realities
March 3, 2017 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES Technical Committee Group Formed to Explore Audio for New Realities

The Audio Engineering Society’s Technical Council (AESTC) has formed a new group to advance the science and application of Audio for New Realities. The group will serve the needs of the audio community working in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality environments. “New realities” covers a whole gamut of application areas including film, games, music, communications, medicine, forensics, simulations, education and virtual tourism.
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Facebook Unveils Technology Behind Audio 360 Virtual Reality Experience
February 23, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Facebook Unveils Technology Behind Audio 360 Virtual Reality Experience

First announced in Q4 2016, Facebook's 360 audio technology was discussed for the first time at Video@Scale, an invitation-only technical conference for engineers who work on large-scale video platforms and technologies. During the event, Facebook revealed more details of its new spatial audio encoding and rendering technology, using "hybrid higher-order ambisonics," and supporting head-locked audio for virtual reality applications.
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Sennheiser Introduces AMBEO VR Mic Compact Ambisonics Microphone
September 15, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Introduces AMBEO VR Mic Compact Ambisonics Microphone

High-quality 3D audio that eliminates the boundaries between playback and reality – this is the promise of the AMBEO VR MIC that was showcased by Sennheiser at IBC 2016. Up until now, VR productions had to record immersive audio with quite complicated microphone set-ups. The AMBEO VR Mic puts everything into a compact and easy-to-use handheld – making it an ideal tool for any professional VR and spatial audio production. The microphone will become commercially available in November 2016.
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AES Sound Field Control Conference 2016 Explores Innovations in Active Management of Audio Within an Acoustical Environment
July 29, 2016 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES Sound Field Control Conference 2016 Explores Innovations in Active Management of Audio Within an Acoustical Environment

Over 90 delegates gathered from July 18–20 at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, for the second international conference on Sound Field Control presented by the Audio Engineering Society. Chaired by Filippo Maria Fazi and Philip Jackson, the conference broke new ground in the understanding of the active management of audio delivered within an acoustical environment.
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Google Discovers Ambisonics and Says it’s the Soundtrack of VR or Something
July 26, 2016 by Joao Martins

Google Discovers Ambisonics and Says it’s the Soundtrack of VR or Something

Google, the company that makes a business out of anything that’s Open Source, announced its new Omnitone project, a platform that they say “brings spatial audio to the web in order to provide more immersive VR experiences, using only the Web Audio API.” The platform uses all the known spatial audio, ambisonics and binaural techniques, including several existing open source efforts, now released on a set of integrated tools that enable exploring immersive audio or spatial audio directly on a web browser.
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3D Sound Labs Launches Challenge for 3D Spatial Audio Application Development
July 15, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

3D Sound Labs Launches Challenge for 3D Spatial Audio Application Development

3D Sound Labs, the French startup and pioneer in 3D sound, is announcing a contest for mobile developers and calls on creative minds to shape the 3D sound smartphone apps of tomorrow. The 3D Dev Challenge summons participants to develop an innovative app (iOS or Android) using 3D audio. Contestants can send their projects until late September 2016. Winners will be awarded a total price of 10,000 euros.
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2016 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology
April 22, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

2016 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology

With the popularity of “smart and wearable” devices driving developments in low-power processors and sensors that are enabling the augmentation of headphones with features more typically associated with hearing aids or smartphones, the 2016 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology, held in Aalborg, Denmark, will certainly be a well-attended event. This AES conference will focus on technologies for headphones with a special emphasis on the emerging fields of Mobile Spatial Audio, Personal Assistive Listening, and Augmented Reality.
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