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A Reactive Virtual Acoustic Environment for Interactive Immersive Audio

Authors: Arend, Johannes M.; Lübeck, Tim; Pörschmann, Christoph

AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio · Paper 9 · March 2019

Abstract

Reactive virtual acoustic environments (VAEs) that respond to any user-generated sound with an appropriate acoustic room response enable immersive audio applications with enhanced sonic interaction between the user and the VAE. This paper presents a reactive VAE that has two clear advantages in comparison to other systems introduced so far: it generally works with any type of sound source, and the dynamic directivity of the source is adequately considered in the binaural reproduction. The paper describes the implementation of the reactive VAE and completes the technical evaluation of the overall system focusing on the recently added software components. Regarding the use of the system in research, the study briefly discusses challenges of conducting psychoacoustic experiments with such a reactive VAE.

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Published in
AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio
Paper number
9
Publication date
March 6, 2019
Affiliation
Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany; TH Köln, Cologne, Germany; TH Köln, Cologne, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper