HOAST: A Higher-Order Ambisonics Streaming Platform

Deppisch T, Meyer-Kahlen N, Hofer B, Latka T, Zernicki T. HOAST: A Higher-Order Ambisonics Streaming Platform. In: AES Convention 148. Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 590. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20828

@inproceedings{Deppisch2020_20828,
  author = {Deppisch, Thomas and Meyer-Kahlen, Nils and Hofer, Benjamin and Latka, Tomasz and Zernicki, Tomasz},
  title = {{HOAST: A Higher-Order Ambisonics Streaming Platform}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 148},
  note = {Paper 590},
  year = {2020},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20828}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - HOAST: A Higher-Order Ambisonics Streaming Platform
AU  - Deppisch, Thomas
AU  - Meyer-Kahlen, Nils
AU  - Hofer, Benjamin
AU  - Latka, Tomasz
AU  - Zernicki, Tomasz
T2  - AES Convention 148
M1  - Paper 590
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20828
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - The availability of free, user-friendly software tools as well as a?ordable hardware is boosting interest in higher-order Ambisonics productions not only in research communities, but also in the fields of Pro Audio and Virtual Reality. However, there is no practical solution available for presenting such productions publicly in a web browser. The largest commercial platforms, for example, are limited to first- or second-order binaural playback. We introduce the higher-order Ambisonics streaming platform HOAST, a new 360? video-platform, which allows for up to fourth-order Ambisonics audio material. Apart from implementation details of state-of-the-art binaural decoding and acoustic zoom, this contribution describes the current state of multichannel web audio and related challenges.
ER  -