{"id":744,"date":"2016-07-27T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=744"},"modified":"2016-07-27T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:54:24","slug":"sounds-in-space-audio-for-virtual-reality-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Sounds in Space &#8211; Audio for Virtual Reality Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few people ask for me to share the animations from my Surround Audio for VR presentation that I delivered\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?page_id=657\" target=\"_blank\">Sounds in Space<\/a> this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ve made a video of the powerpoint (30 seconds per slide) so everything can be viewed in context (note there&#8217;s no audio, though!). \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t at the event, it goes through both the graphics and audio processing needed to create VR content and shows the limitations, with respect to the inter-aural level (ILD) and time (ITD) differences reproduced by the Ambisonics to Binaural process at\u00a0varying orders. \u00a08th order Ambisonics does a great job reproducing\u00a0both the ILD and ITD up to 4kHz.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAmXcPfrj-M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few people ask for me to share the animations from my Surround Audio for VR presentation that I delivered\u00a0at Sounds in Space this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ve made a video of the powerpoint (30 seconds per slide) so everything can be viewed in context (note there&#8217;s no audio, though!). \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sounds in Space &#8211; Audio for Virtual Reality Animations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambisonics","category-research","category-vr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iYFT-c0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":700,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=700","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":0},"title":"YouTube 360 VR Ambisonics Teardown!","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"April 28th,  2016","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE : 4th May 2016 - I've added a video using the measured filters. 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