Monday, August 2, 2004
Wired: "MP3 Pioneer Debuts Spatial Sound"
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"Iosono is a new immersive sound technology developed by Karlheinz Brandenburg -- the German inventor considered responsible for much of the development and commercialization of the MP3 codec in the 1980s and '90s ... Iosono's developers claim the system offers "three-dimensional sound," and that it could revolutionize the entertainment experience for movie theaters, theme park attractions, gaming environments and home systems ... The technology is based in part on Wave Field Synthesis, a concept developed by researchers in the 1980s at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands."
'Iosono' will aim to create a sweet spot of 3D sound for every seat of a movie theater. It involves using over 300 speakers arranged around a space to provide a more realistic environment, one where sound can subtly move across the room for everyone listening, not just those in the middle of all the speakers. Theatre owners of course are already grumbling about the prospect that they may have to upgrade their sound systems when this expensive technology is available ubiquitously. Personally, this would save me lots of time as I currently tend to get to the theatre well in advance to get a good seat (in the middle of the theatre).
'Iosono' will aim to create a sweet spot of 3D sound for every seat of a movie theater. It involves using over 300 speakers arranged around a space to provide a more realistic environment, one where sound can subtly move across the room for everyone listening, not just those in the middle of all the speakers. Theatre owners of course are already grumbling about the prospect that they may have to upgrade their sound systems when this expensive technology is available ubiquitously. Personally, this would save me lots of time as I currently tend to get to the theatre well in advance to get a good seat (in the middle of the theatre).
