All items tagged with Ambisonics (68)

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.

Cadence Offers Industry’s First Licensable MPEG-H Audio Decoder for Tensilica HiFi DSPs

September 15, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Offers Industry’s First Licensable MPEG-H Audio Decoder for Tensilica HiFi DSPs

Cadence Design Systems announced immediate availability of the next-generation MPEG-H Audio decoder based on Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs. MPEG-H Audio is a future broadcast standard and is expected to be one of the key audio technologies adopted worldwide for new TVs. Through close collaboration with Fraunhofer, one of the developers of the open ISO MPEG-H Audio standard, Cadence is first to market with an implementation for a licensable DSP.

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.

Innovative Dante-Enabled 3D Audio Lab at Virginia Tech

April 6, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Innovative Dante-Enabled 3D Audio Lab at Virginia Tech

An innovative 3D audio lab recently put into use at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, gives undergraduates and graduate students experience with a 57 channel ambisonic environment for both hands-on learning and research. This innovate effort uses equipment from a variety of companies that produce Dante-enabled network audio gear.

Standards Review: Considerations for the MPEG-H Audio Standard

July 31, 2015 by Joao Martins

Standards Review: Considerations for the MPEG-H Audio Standard

This article discusses the plan for the new MPEG-H Audio standard, a real-time 3-D audio encoder system with applications for broadcast and streaming distribution, developed in large part by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, and recently finalized and submitted as an ISO/MPEG standard.

NYC Ambisonics Library Now Available from Pro Sound Effects

July 17, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

NYC Ambisonics Library Now Available from Pro Sound Effects

Pro Sound Effects has announced the release of NYC Ambisonics, its first sound effects library containing files captured with SoundField microphones and delivered in Ambisonics B-format bundled with SurroundZone2 software, allowing to point “virtual microphones” in any direction for greater control and creativity.

The Audio Engineering Society Publishes New Standard Framework for 3D Audio

March 13, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

The Audio Engineering Society Publishes New Standard Framework for 3D Audio

The Audio Engineering Society announced the recent publication of the AES69-2015 standard, which provides an important framework for the growing binaural and 3D personal audio industries. The standard, which describes the format and exchange of spatial acoustics files, is the product of the AES Standards Committee.

AES 55th International Conference to Focus On Spatial Audio – Recording, Reproduction and Perception

July 10, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

AES 55th International Conference to Focus On Spatial Audio – Recording, Reproduction and Perception

The AES 55th International Conference, focusing on Spatial Audio, is set to take place August 27-29, 2014, at the Helsinki Music Centre in Helsinki, Finland. Spatial Audio is currently one of the largest research topics in the field of audio, of great importance and interest for both the professional and consumer audio markets.

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