Spatial Audio Transmission for Cell Phones

NTT DoCoMo announced today that it has developed a spatial audio transmission technology for mobile phones that enables an user to assign a spatial position to each sound source when listening to multiple sound sources, such as during a game or a conference call.

The technology enables a user listening with headphones to, for example, hear each speaker's voice as if it were coming from a unique direction, creating a virtual face-to-face communication environment.

Why? is what comes to my mind, but this is obviously way over my head.

[I4U and Press release]

emily | 2:50 PM | Technology |
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