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'In a sequestered room off the bustling Mobile World Congress convention center floor in Barcelona, Dirac walked us through the firm’s first audio software product: Dynamic 3D Audio. “It enables transparent sound reproduction,” Dirac Research CEO Dr. Mathias Johansson said. “For example, if in a VR environment a helicopter is hovering 10 yards in front of me, regardless of which way I turn my head, that helicopter [stays] perfectly fixed.”'
'Dynamic 3D Audio’s secret sauce, so to speak, is head-related transfer functions, or HRTFs. As a company spokesperson explained it, they’re a function of how the human ear perceives a particular sound from a fixed point in space — like how a subwoofer sounds from across the room. Dirac Research’s Dynamic 3D Audio platform considers height, cranial proportions, and ear dimensions in each individualized HRTF, ensuring the most accurate reproduction of sound possible.
Those calculations feed a reverberation engine and a head-tracker — the aformentioned bundle of wires.'
'Dyrac’s second demo, Panorama Sound, was perhaps more impressive than Dynamic 3D Audio. A rep handed us a Huawei Nexus 6P smartphone outfitted with modified software, and had us compare between “Panorama Sound”-enabled stereo and standard stereo.'
'Panorama Sound is made especially convincing thanks to patented algorithms that fine-tune the audio’s frequency, impulse response, and phase. The end result is a perfectly coordinated speakers that deliver an ultra-wide sound stage, rich bass, and unbelievable crispness.
All the more impressive, it works with virtually any audio array that consists of more than two speakers. A Dirac audio rep said that regardless of the two speaker’s proximity to the listener, Panorama can tune them to sound like a perfectly balanced pair of headphones.
Panorama Sound, like Dynamic 3D Audio, remains a demo for now. But Dirac’s in talks with Google, which develops the Android smartphone operating system, about potential implementations of Panorama Sound. And it’s partnering with a headphone maker to build Dynamic 3D Audio’s sensors into a Hi-Fi audio product.
Dirac won’t commit to a firm launch date for either product, but here’s hoping they make it to market.'
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/dirac-labs-mwc-2017/
'Dynamic 3D Audio’s secret sauce, so to speak, is head-related transfer functions, or HRTFs. As a company spokesperson explained it, they’re a function of how the human ear perceives a particular sound from a fixed point in space — like how a subwoofer sounds from across the room. Dirac Research’s Dynamic 3D Audio platform considers height, cranial proportions, and ear dimensions in each individualized HRTF, ensuring the most accurate reproduction of sound possible.
Those calculations feed a reverberation engine and a head-tracker — the aformentioned bundle of wires.'
'Dyrac’s second demo, Panorama Sound, was perhaps more impressive than Dynamic 3D Audio. A rep handed us a Huawei Nexus 6P smartphone outfitted with modified software, and had us compare between “Panorama Sound”-enabled stereo and standard stereo.'
'Panorama Sound is made especially convincing thanks to patented algorithms that fine-tune the audio’s frequency, impulse response, and phase. The end result is a perfectly coordinated speakers that deliver an ultra-wide sound stage, rich bass, and unbelievable crispness.
All the more impressive, it works with virtually any audio array that consists of more than two speakers. A Dirac audio rep said that regardless of the two speaker’s proximity to the listener, Panorama can tune them to sound like a perfectly balanced pair of headphones.
Panorama Sound, like Dynamic 3D Audio, remains a demo for now. But Dirac’s in talks with Google, which develops the Android smartphone operating system, about potential implementations of Panorama Sound. And it’s partnering with a headphone maker to build Dynamic 3D Audio’s sensors into a Hi-Fi audio product.
Dirac won’t commit to a firm launch date for either product, but here’s hoping they make it to market.'
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/dirac-labs-mwc-2017/
