Version 3.0 of the VLC multimedia player software, to be released in the coming days. That will integrate audio processing to enjoy the spatialized soundtracks using any stereo audio headset. Its publisher VideoLAN has partnered with this with the young French company 3D Sound Labs. That will provide the technology used by these treatments.
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More specifically, this partnership will allow VLC 3.0 to rely on HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) filters developed by 3D Sound Labs for the creation of virtual spatialization. As a reminder, the application of these HRTF makes it possible to simulate the acoustic behavior of the listener’s head (skull, auricle, etc.). And to apply to the small sound variations of tone that will give the brain from the listener the illusion of a sound coming from a specific direction.
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Also, these treatments can apply to any conventional multichannel soundtrack (5.1, 7.1 or other configuration). But also to 3D audio content in ambisonic format. Developed in the 70s, the ambiance consists in recording a spatialized sound. That has a base on a number of loudspeakers. But instead representing an authentic three-dimensional sound field, of greater or lesser precision. Which is called the order of ambisonie?
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Also, this ability to decode ambisonic audio streams with a precision up to order 3 is one of the novelties comes by version 3.0 of VLC. Also, it is a fact that ambisonie is very common for soundtracks “360 °” video content. That also works for virtual reality types of content. With which this new VLC, called “Weatherwax,” was well heard to be compatible.