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Seems to me that it was a term which existed before Apple started using it: <https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-09-05%202023-09-05&q=%22Spatial
by teddyh 3y ago
Seems to me that it was a term which existed before Apple started using it:
<https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-09-05%202023-09-05&q=%22Spatial%20audio%22&hl=en-US https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-09-05%202...>
- crazygringo 3y agoBut your link shows precisely the opposite. That the term essentially didn't exist (1/100 "interest") until Apple rolled it out in Sep 2020 (with some press the summer before). The general idea of a 3D effect on headphones has been around for decades, often called "3D audio" or similar [1], but I never heard the term "spatial audio" until Apple marketed it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio_effect