Imagine having a surround sound system. Now put on your headphones and you still have that surround sound system. That's why it's useful / wanted. Video game

Imagine having a surround sound system. Now put on your headphones and you still have that surround sound system. That's why it's useful / wanted. Video gamers use spatial audio to know where that person shooting at them is. Audio listeners like the illusory effects of panning around their head. ASMR listeners like how it can sound exactly like someone is scratching their head because the sound has origin. Movie producers like it because they can fit more audio into a single scene because the brain can process more spatial audio than regular stereo audio. That said, stereo audio is still pretty good. Some audio is still just mono. Copied audio is usually mono. Spatial audio is one way for producers to set their creations off from cheap copies, almost as a non-intrusive form of DRM. These are my opinions, and happy to chat more about it. Audio is tight.