Fraunhofer, Hulu in Agreement for VR Surround Sound
Hulu’s virtual reality (VR) app will offer surround sound for movies and TV shows via Fraunhofer's Cingo immersive audio headphone rendering technology for mobile devices, Fraunhofer and Hulu said in a Thursday announcement. Immersive audio is “crucial for virtual reality…
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experiences to create a full sense of presence,” they said. Users of Hulu’s VR app will benefit from movies and TV shows streamed using the HE-AAC surround sound audio codec and rendered for headphones through Fraunhofer Cingo, they said. HE-AAC, deployed in more than 8 billion devices, is the native surround sound audio codec for Android, the underlying operating system of Samsung phones paired with Gear VR, the companies said. Android’s HE-AAC implementation includes support for loudness and downmix metadata known from the broadcast TV world, as well as other features that allow the sound to be tailored for an optimum user experience in any environment, they said. Consumers can experience Hulu with surround sound by downloading the Hulu VR app from the Oculus Gear VR Store, and Cingo is available from Fraunhofer as a product-ready software implementation for mobile device manufacturers, chip set vendors and providers of multimedia services, they said.