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A Strange Brew: VoIP/Telephony Crossed With Surround Sound<BR>
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With apologies to the McKenzie brothers. There appears to be an odd cross between two of my passions in the works. As I get more into the daily use of wideband telephony I wonder if there's a potential to leverage some surround sound techniques to take conferencing to a new level?<BR>
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It couldn't be the puritanical kind of approach used in music recording. It would be more a matter of using surround panning to position participants in an synthetic soundfield. I wonder if this has been done to any degree elsewhere?<BR>
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Stereo is extremely limited in scope. Most of a synthetic stereo image is manipulated using simplistic level based panning, not unlike an old school balance control. It's coarse and two dimensional at best.<BR>
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I'm thinking that UHJ format ambisonic encoding might prove more useful. It allows for accurate, controllable three dimensional positioning while only using the equivalent of a stereo stream.<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Dean Collins<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:20:31 -0500<BR>
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<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">Michael Grave just posted a question about surround conferences. <BR>
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I didnt see it posted on the ast-list, what do you think? Does something like this have potential? <BR>
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Id love to listen in on one of these calls to see how it actually sounds if someone builds a trial version of N deviations. <BR>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" DEFAULT="FACE">Regards, <BR>
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