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Sound Immersion
Multichannel Audio Technologies
Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound technique: in addition to the horizontal plane, it covers sound sources above and below the listener.
3D sound is a sound as we hear it naturally.
3D sound allows us to find the location of the sound source.
A Brief History
Sebastian Kaulitzki/Getty
Binaural technology models human anatomy and uses psycho-acoustic algorithms.
A head-related transfer function (HRTF) is a response that characterizes how an ear receives a sound from a point in space.
Head-related transfer function (HRTF)
A head-related transfer function (HRTF) is a response that characterizes how an ear receives a sound from a point in space.
Audio Communication Group of TU Berlin
Head-related transfer function test site
The World’s Quietest Room
1940: A Bell Laboratories’s Murray Hill Anechoic Chamber.
Michael Gerzon Audio Pioneer
Ambisonics is a flexible system in that the encoding is separated from
the decoding.
Encoding Decoding
Ambisonics 360 vs Surround sound
University of Denmark
Audio-Visual Immersion Lab, Technical University of Denmark
University of Surrey ( Soundsphere )
Soundsphere at University of Surrey
The Cube at Virginia Tech
4-Channel B-format – First-Order Ambisonics B-format
amplitude information
spatial information
Daniel Courville 2007
360 soundfield
dearVR
WAVES B360 Ambisonic
Encoder Nx VirtualMix
Room
http://www.brigittazics.com/work/serendipitous-murmurations/
ATK ( Ambisonic Toolkit ) Model
dearVR
WAVES B360 Ambisonic
Encoder Nx VirtualMix
Room
Max/PD: HoaLibrary Max/PD:ICTS Ambisonics
