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>spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the devic
by scoot 6y ago
>spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head moves.
Emperors clothes. The audio is already anchored to the device, since the device emits the audio. And the device is (presumably) anchored to the wearers head by friction. so...
- lttlrck 6y agoThe device is eg an iPad or iPhone.
- scoot 6y agoThe listening device is headphones. (Perhaps whoever wrote the bunkum doesn't understand what they said, but the rest of us do.)
- hug 6y agoIt's not a mistake in their copy, which is unambiguous, it's just your incorrect reading of the antecedent. The headphones themselves are always referred to in the copy AirPods Max, never as "a device". The headphones are unusable without a source, referred to in every single place in as "a device". I get making the mistake, but there's no need to double down when someone points out you've misread.
- rangibaby 6y agoIn a real surround sound setup you can turn your head and look at the speakers when they make an unexpected noise. It would be cool if these headphones did that too