All items tagged with spatial audio (226)
Dear Reality Releases dearVR PRO 3D Audio VST/AU/AAX Plugin Update Creating a Complete Spatial Audio Solution
November 11, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Dear Reality Releases dearVR PRO 3D Audio VST/AU/AAX Plugin Update Creating a Complete Spatial Audio Solution

Dear Reality and the Plugin Alliance have announced availability of dearVR PRO V1.4.0 — a major multichannel update to Dear Reality’s all- in-one AAX-, AU-, and VST-supporting spatializing solution for 3D audio, extending its state-of-the-art binaural and Ambisonics encoder to support 26 multichannel output formats from 5.0, 7.1.4 to 13.1, intended for Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, or MPEG-H content production.
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Sony confirms 360 Reality Audio Immersive Music Experiences on New Amazon Echo Studio
October 16, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sony confirms 360 Reality Audio Immersive Music Experiences on New Amazon Echo Studio

Sony Corporation announced that 360 Reality Audio content, which offers a new immersive music experience for listeners, will be made available on the new Amazon Echo Studio with Amazon Music HD to customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan later this year. Sony's 360 Reality Audio is an immersive audio experience utilizing MPEG-H object-based spatial audio technology from Fraunhofer IIS.
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In Perspective: Dolby Partners with Amazon Music HD to Promote Dolby Atmos Music Streaming
September 27, 2019 by Joao Martins

In Perspective: Dolby Partners with Amazon Music HD to Promote Dolby Atmos Music Streaming

When Amazon recently announced its latest Echo Studio smart speaker, focusing on audio quality and promising an "immersive" and "3D Audio" experience, the partnership with Dolby Laboratories was highlighted. The same day, Dolby confirmed that its Dolby Atmos Music format will be supported directly on the Echo Studio with content in the new object-based format being streamed through Amazon Music HD. Dolby states, "listening to music in Dolby Atmos on Echo Studio will unleash every detail as it was meant to be heard, completely immersing fans in a whole new way."
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Dear Reality Updates dearVR PRO Software with Multichannel Output Support for All Spatial Audio Production Needs
September 20, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Dear Reality Updates dearVR PRO Software with Multichannel Output Support for All Spatial Audio Production Needs

At IBC 2019, Dear Reality announced an update (v1.4) to its flagship spatial audio software solution. Available from October 2019, the dearVR PRO 3D audio panner will support 26 multichannel output formats. In addition to binaural and Ambisonics outputs, the software will be able to reproduce multichannel formats for loudspeaker playback from 5.0 to 13.1, supporting Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, MPEG-H or the AMBEO Soundbar from Sennheiser.
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AES Headphone Technology Conference to Dig Deep into Emerging Audio Technologies and Applications
August 26, 2019 by Audio Engineering_Society

AES Headphone Technology Conference to Dig Deep into Emerging Audio Technologies and Applications

The AES is set to hold its second International Headphone Technology Conference, August 27–29 at the Golden Gate Club, Presidio, San Francisco, CA, offering three days of presentations, sessions, demonstrations, and more, all dedicated to headphone technology. Mobile Spatial Audio, Individualization, Assistive Listening and Audio for Augmented Reality offer new areas of study and innovation for this year’s conference.
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New ZYLIA Mix & Master Service Allows Musicians to Optimize Spatial Sound From 360-Degree Recordings
August 7, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

New ZYLIA Mix & Master Service Allows Musicians to Optimize Spatial Sound From 360-Degree Recordings

Zylia launched the ZYLIA Mix & Master service, a one-of-a-kind service that helps musicians to get spatial and binaural sound from sessions recorded with the ZYLIA ZM-1 360-degree microphone. For some time, everyone who purchases a ZYLIA MUSIC system, which includes the ZYLIA ZM-1 microphone array, will get the opportunity to submit four songs to the ZYLIA Mix & Master service — and get professional audio mixing and mastering for free.
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Sennheiser Acquires Majority Stake in VR/AR Audio Software Company Dear Reality
July 9, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Acquires Majority Stake in VR/AR Audio Software Company Dear Reality

Sennheiser has taken a majority sharehold in Dear Reality GmbH. The German company specialized in spatial audio algorithms and VR/AR audio software will continue to operate as a separate company based in Düsseldorf and Dear Reality confirms that its existing customers will be able to rely on existing dearVR products, while looking forward to new joint VR/AR workflows developed in collaboration with Sennheiser. Uwe Cremering, responsible for AMBEO Immersive Audio at Sennheiser, will support the company as a third CEO alongside founders Achim Fell and Christian Sander.
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Zylia Expands Technical and Operations Teams to Address 360-Degree Audio Recording Solutions
July 4, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Zylia Expands Technical and Operations Teams to Address 360-Degree Audio Recording Solutions

Zylia, the Polish company that developed the successful ZM-1 spherical microphone array, is expanding across technical and operational areas to address rapidly rising demand for the company’s innovative 3D audio recording and production solutions. Zylia has hired Maurizio Barausse as key account manager, Marek Kabacinski and Krzysztof Klos as software testers, Michal Huflejt as a research engineer, Wojtek Blachowiak as a technical customer service expert, and Lidia Wojciechowska as office manager.
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R&D Stories: The Genesis of the ZYLIA ZM-1 and Next-Generation Audio Recording
May 15, 2019 by Piotr Szczechowiak

R&D Stories: The Genesis of the ZYLIA ZM-1 and Next-Generation Audio Recording

This article is an interesting testimony from Piotr Szczechowiak, co-founder and COO at Zylia, a startup company from Poland, known for its ZM-1 spherical microphone array. The ZM-1 records and separates each instrument and vocals into a separate track using an innovative and patented recording sound-source separation technology, combining dedicated software and cloud processing. This article was published in audioXpress, January 2019
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R&D Stories: Enabling Higher Quality Audio Capture for Smartphones
May 5, 2019 by Jyri Huopaniemi and Kai Havukainen

R&D Stories: Enabling Higher Quality Audio Capture for Smartphones

In this article for audioXpress, Jyri Huopaniemi and Kai Havukainen from Nokia Technologies, the licensing arm of Nokia, explain how to enable higher quality audio capture for smartphones and introduces us to some of the most exciting audio recording features ever available for mobile devices. How would you like to be able to completely isolate sound sources or zoom in on specific sounds and cancel the rest in location recordings, directly on a smartphone?
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