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Personalized Spatial Audio has me really excited (https://youtu.be/ux6zXguiqxM?t=2739 https://youtu.be/ux6zXguiqxM?t=2739). The idea is to map your ears / head

by w-m 4y ago

Personalized Spatial Audio has me really excited (https://youtu.be/ux6zXguiqxM?t=2739 https://youtu.be/ux6zXguiqxM?t=2739). The idea is to map your ears / head with the depth camera of the iPhone, to create a personal profile. 10 years ago I played around with binaural microphones, the kind that you stick in your own ears to record the true sound profile. Closing your eyes and playing back these recordings is just incredible. You will be completely fooled and will not believe that these sounds are just played back. If this personalized spatial audio stuff gets even close to this level of immersiveness, that would be outstanding. So cool for Apple to even attempt such a feature!

keepquestioning 4y ago
There was a company that did this. Whatever happened to them? Nura I think. Maybe they got bought out by Apple. Surprised they are not suing.
- kimburgess 4y ago
  Nura measures otoacoustic emissions. Others in this space (Audeara et al) use audiometry. In all cases this is designed just to model the frequency response of your ears. This is then used to create a static filter that compensates for this. Apple may still do something similar for base calibration but that's not the exciting bit. From the marketing material the depth camera is used to scan your face. This gives both the exact placement of your ears, full facial geometry and likely a model of your pinnae. With that info spatial audio could get terrifyingly good. It becomes possible to fully emulate how you perceive sound naturally, applying the same time differences, filtering and early reflections as you've been used to your entire life.
  - keepquestioning 4y ago
    Using the depth camera to model the face is pretty smart.
- siquick 4y ago
  Nura is still going and are miles ahead of anything Apple are doing sound quality wise. I’ve got both the Nuraphones and the Nurabuds and listening to anything else in a similar price range is such a step down. You can also use Spatial on them if that’s your thing. New ones coming out soon https://www.nurasound.com/ https://www.nurasound.com/
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nunez 4y ago
This is already in iOS 16! Connect your AirPods Pro, then go to settings and tap on the AirPods.

by w-m 4y ago

keepquestioning 4y ago

There was a company that did this. Whatever happened to them? Nura I think. Maybe they got bought out by Apple. Surprised they are not suing.

kimburgess 4y ago
Nura measures otoacoustic emissions. Others in this space (Audeara et al) use audiometry. In all cases this is designed just to model the frequency response of your ears. This is then used to create a static filter that compensates for this. Apple may still do something similar for base calibration but that's not the exciting bit. From the marketing material the depth camera is used to scan your face. This gives both the exact placement of your ears, full facial geometry and likely a model of your pinnae. With that info spatial audio could get terrifyingly good. It becomes possible to fully emulate how you perceive sound naturally, applying the same time differences, filtering and early reflections as you've been used to your entire life.
- keepquestioning 4y ago
  Using the depth camera to model the face is pretty smart.
siquick 4y ago
Nura is still going and are miles ahead of anything Apple are doing sound quality wise. I’ve got both the Nuraphones and the Nurabuds and listening to anything else in a similar price range is such a step down. You can also use Spatial on them if that’s your thing. New ones coming out soon https://www.nurasound.com/ https://www.nurasound.com/

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nunez 4y ago

This is already in iOS 16! Connect your AirPods Pro, then go to settings and tap on the AirPods.