“Spatial sound” is an open category that emphasizes multiperspective, multidirectional, spatially sensitive listening.
Spatial audio describes a variety of sound playback technologies. There are "object-based" formats in which the location of a sound is baked into the position of the thing that emits the sound i.e. d&b Soundscape. There's also "Ambisonics" that provides a sphere of sound centered around the listener, i.e. Envelop4Live. And there are spatial virtualizers, technologies that project sound into a virtual acoustic space, i.e. Wave NX.
The acoustic principles that make perceiving spatial audio possible over a pair of earbuds also apply to technologies that produce spatial audio from two or more speakers. Earbuds and headphones have acoustically isolated speakers.
Spatial sound we tend to refer to at the lab is talking about the immersive audio production that takes place outside of headphones or earbuds, hence the "space" in spatial. What gets me most excited in researching and exploring spatial sound is its potentials for enhancing communal and social experiences through this technology.
Spatial audio describes a variety of sound playback technologies. There are "object-based" formats in which the location of a sound is baked into the position of the thing that emits the sound i.e. d&b Soundscape. There's also "Ambisonics" that provides a sphere of sound centered around the listener, i.e. Envelop4Live. And there are spatial virtualizers, technologies that project sound into a virtual acoustic space, i.e. Wave NX.
The acoustic principles that make perceiving spatial audio possible over a pair of earbuds also apply to technologies that produce spatial audio from two or more speakers. Earbuds and headphones have acoustically isolated speakers.
Spatial sound we tend to refer to at the lab is talking about the immersive audio production that takes place outside of headphones or earbuds, hence the "space" in spatial. What gets me most excited in researching and exploring spatial sound is its potentials for enhancing communal and social experiences through this technology.
im·mer·sive/iˌmərsiv/ adjective
: providing, involving, or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something (such as an activity or a real or artificial environment)
: providing, involving, or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something (such as an activity or a real or artificial environment)
Quadraphonic can be set up as simply as having an audio interface with 4 audio outputs plugged into 4 speakers, and routing 4 separate audio information to them.
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