After acquiring Impulsonic earlier this year, Valve just released Steam Audio, a new spatial audio solution with physics based sound propagation on top of HRTF binaural audio for games & VR. The Beta of the SDK is available free of charge & currently supports Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. For more details please visit the official announcement. … [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...]
“ADC, it’s easy as 1 10 11” – A Retrospective from the Pros
I was born in England in 1988. Some of my earliest memories involve old BBC and Mac computers. I grew up listening to CDs, MiniDisks, playing "Duck Hunt" on my sister's NES. The dial-up modem sounds are imprinted on my memory. I recall my father ordering books from Amazon.com back when that's all Amazon sold. In my teen years I assembled my own computer to save money and grew … [Read more...]