AES Forms Technical Group to ‘Advance the Science’ of Audio for Virtual Reality
The Audio Engineering Society’s Technical Council formed a group to “advance the science and application” of audio for virtual, augmented and mixed reality “environments,” AES said in a Thursday announcement. The group’s work will cover “a whole gamut of application…
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areas” in film, games, music, communications, medicine, forensics, simulations, education and virtual tourism, it said. “The technical requirements for new realities cover obvious areas such as spatial audio and synthesis but extend beyond into audio networking, semantic audio, perception, broadcast and online delivery.” The group’s “core responsibility” will be to develop “a roadmap for the AES to address emergent applications in new realities,” AES said. Members will include “industry professionals working at the forefront of commercial technologies for virtual, augmented and mixed realities as well as key academics in the field whose audio research crosses new multidisciplinary boundaries,” it said.