Pilot Study on Creating Fundamental Methodologies for Capturing Spatial Room Information for XR Listening Environments

Matsakis M, Songmuang P. Pilot Study on Creating Fundamental Methodologies for Capturing Spatial Room Information for XR Listening Environments. In: Express Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2024. Paper 307. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22765

@inproceedings{Matsakis2024_22765,
  author = {Matsakis, Michael and Songmuang, Parichat},
  title = {{Pilot Study on Creating Fundamental Methodologies for Capturing Spatial Room Information for XR Listening Environments}},
  note = {Paper 307},
  year = {2024},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22765}
}

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TI  - Pilot Study on Creating Fundamental Methodologies for Capturing Spatial Room Information for XR Listening Environments
AU  - Matsakis, Michael
AU  - Songmuang, Parichat
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PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/01
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22765
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Holophonic recording techniques were created and observed to see which techniques would best transcribe the three-dimensional characteristics of the room, allowing a listener 6-degrees-of-freedom within a virtual environment. Two recordings were conducted, one consisting of a solo harp and the second consisting of an African gyil duet. Three microphone systems were prepared to capture the instruments: XYZ array, Hamasaki-Ambeo array, and XYZ with an additional XY side cluster. The recordings were spatialized in Unity using the Steam Audio Plug-in. A preliminary subjective evaluation was conducted with expert subjects ranking each of the systems based on certain attributes. Results showed some favor toward the XYZ array due to the better capture of reverberation, however, this does not exclude the Hamasaki-Ambeo from being a system that would be suitable for holophonic ambience reproduction in virtual environments. These results will be used as a foundation to a long-term research of building a methodology for holophonic recording.
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