Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Holophonic - super realistic 3D sound effects !

The sound you will hear is so realistic it's impressive. Not like 5.1 surround sound, the sound you hear goes all around you then up and down. The concept behind producing this realistic sound is called Holophony. To sum it up, think Holography for sound.

Holophony (or holophonic sound) is an audio recording technique which operates on a similar principle to Holography, except it applies these principles to sound and audio recording. It is related to the technique of wave field synthesis whereby sound is sampled over an area, usually a sphere, now Dummy head KU100 with omnidirectional microphones enabling the recreation of the shape of the sound wavefront as well as its direction. It is derived from the Huygens' Principle, which conveys the idea that an acoustical field within a volume can be expressed as an integral. It has some similarities with higher order Ambisonics. The result has been reported to be realistic and life-like three dimensional sounding audio recordings which have been said to exceed the realism of stereo sound.

Samples:
1. Virtual Barber Shop (amazing!!)
2. Matches
3. 3D paper

Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/14749157/Holophonic.rar.html

Full download

Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/34610511/Holofonia.rar.html

1 comment:

MzClaws said...

Hi,

I already have heard Virtual Barber shop but the other two are new to me. Can't wait to download them and test it :) Thanks for sharing!