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3D Audio Standard Released

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-had-a-pair-of-ears-on-the-back-of-your-head dept.

CIStud writes The Audio Engineering Society (AES) has released its new 3D Audio Standard (AES69-2015), covering topics such as binaural listening, which is growing due to increased usage of smartphones, tablets and other individual entertainment systems that offer audio using headphones. AES states that an understanding of the way that the listener experiences binaural sound, expressed as head-related transfer functions (HRTF) facilitates the way to 3D personal audio. The standard also looks into convolution-based reverberation processors in 3D virtual audio environments, which has also grown with the increase of available computing power.

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  1. Monster cables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to sound incredible on gold plated 3d monster cables!!

  2. And another DRM loop to jump through... by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's not forget that this means new DRM and additional difficulty to get shit that we paid for working together.

    1. Re:And another DRM loop to jump through... by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Every new digital technology improvement in the A / V / videogame department has brought new DRM with it. I can't see how this time it's going to be different.