"Facebook Patents VR Audio Tech That Sends Sound Straight To Your Skull" (FB)
Huh.
Anybody want some mint-in-box Sennheiser wireless 'phones?
From CB Insights
Patent for using bone transducers in a VR audio system could make it easier to understand the position of sounds in a virtual environment.
Illustration of “bone transducers” in a VR system from US patent 9,794,691.
For a virtual reality environment to feel immersive and “real,” VR
users must gain a life-like awareness of the objects and events in their
surroundings.
Audio position is key to achieving that: VR must deliver
sounds as if it comes from specific virtual locations – such as an
avalanche on a mountain many miles away from you.
As of now, there are “spatial audio” technologies for delivering
realistic 3D sound, but most rely entirely on headphones. Since they
send sound through the ears, headphones alone can limit users’
perception of the position of sounds in VR – making it hard to
distinguish if a noise is coming from in front or behind them, for
example....MORE
