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vajra3d
Up and Coming
February 12, 2014

spatial audio for headphones

I'm curious to know how others are dealing with this. After reading the BP guide I get the impression that there should be two mics that follow the orientation of the head movement but I'm only aware of the "audio listener" device which doesn't allow for more than one instance at a time.

Unity doesn't offer much documentation about it so does anyone happen to know how it functions or if it simulates an omni-directional, uni-directional, or bi-directional mic? Any info would be really helpful!
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    virror
    Up and Coming
    February 22, 2014
    Well, both headphones and speakers are regular stereo output speakers, but one big difference should be that headphones will follow your head orientation and speakers would not?

    Hopefully i will have enough time to get a WIP thread up today with my Binaural solution for Unity so you can test that out and see what you think : )
    vajra3dAuthor
    Up and Coming
    February 23, 2014
    Hmm.... well I just checked again and seem to be getting the same results. I tried with two different sets of speakers and they both seem to follow the head movement as the headphones do. Even the cheesy little desktop ones that are set up directly in front of me on the desk appear to follow the orientation correctly (instead of being swapped around).
    virror
    Up and Coming
    February 24, 2014
    Try this and "see" if you hear any differences : )
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1688685/Binaural%20test.zip
    Note: You need to set your os audio output to 44100Hz for it to work properly.
    ElementAudio
    New Participant
    December 15, 2014
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