This is an interview with Nina Diamond about a special exhibition entitled Visitors to Versailles that took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nina is a Managing Editor and Producer in the Digital Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Previously, she created award-winning digital media for The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her … [Read more...]
A Case Study in Quad-Binaural Mixing for Linear VR/360
In the fall of 2016, I was asked to sound design and mix a VR/360 short called UTURN. While there’s a lot of discussion surrounding immersive/3D sound for games, I don’t see a lot of conversation on the linear side. I’ve been meaning to get something written up regarding the approach we took, and my schedule finally lightened up enough to for me to follow through on … [Read more...]
The Technical Details Behind Facebook 360 Audio
In a recent post on the Facebook engineering blog, Varun Nair & Hans Fugal explain in great detail the technical details behind Facebook 360 Audio. You can read the complete article here. … [Read more...]
Impulsonic Acquired By Valve
Impulsonic, the creators of Phonon3D (a tool for binaural audio rendering for Games & VR) have been acquired by Valve. We’re confident that with the resources and expertise that Valve brings to the table, we will be able to push Phonon and VR Audio to an exciting new level. The Impulsonic team will be transitioning to Valve HQ over the coming weeks, but our work will … [Read more...]
Using Your Ears in ‘Sight Unseen’: An Interview with Kedar Shashidhar
Continuing our series about the audio artists behind blind-accessible game development, we now speak to Kedar Shashidhar, Founder and Creative Director of the BlackOut VR game studio. His team is currently in the QA phase of their first blind-accessible horror game, Sight Unseen. Kedar was kind enough to share stories about developing this immersive ear-lead experience … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 34 – I’m Not Fond of the Term “3D Sound”
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I understand where people are coming from with this term, but I can still hate it. Sound reproduction has been … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 30 – Head Tracking, Immersion and Binarual
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I'll be honest with you. For a long time, binaural has felt...to me...like little more than an interesting … [Read more...]