Acoustic3D takes sound to the third dimension
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[ARN Net]
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Following 21 years of research and development, Acoustic3D’s founder and managing director, Joe Hayes, has transformed the concept of 3D sound into a range of 70 watt ‘acoustic hologram generators’, as he prefers to call them. …
Hayes said, “It works by removing the immediate environments acoustics – it negates this room and stops all echoes – and then unpacks the acoustics and space within the recording itself.”
During a brief test drive, we found that it is able to produce a contextual experience based on the environment of the recording.
For example, during a sound clip of a neighbourhood park, its depth of field allowed us to distinguish between nearby chatter, distant birds, and passing vehicles, and with an opera song, it generated a concert-like feel, as if we were at a performance. …
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