Stationary Music from Users’ Viewpoint in VR Applications

Kim S, Sridhar S. Stationary Music from Users’ Viewpoint in VR Applications. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 466. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19731

@inproceedings{Kim2018_19731,
  author = {Kim, Sungsoo and Sridhar, Sripathi},
  title = {{Stationary Music from Users’ Viewpoint in VR Applications}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 466},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19731}
}

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AB  - The ultimate goal in virtual reality (VR) is to achieve complete immersion in terms of audio and video, where background music is typically included to keep users absorbed in a game or 360-video content. This paper explores a multichannel loudspeaker configuration to anchor the background music to the user’s viewpoint in VR. To that end, an evenly-spaced octagonal loudspeaker configuration is implemented in order to anchor the background music using head tracking data. The real-time panning is achieved through Vector-Base Amplitude Panning (VBAP). This paper also describes a demo interface built using the Oculus Rift in Unity and Max/MSP, as proof of concept.
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