Interesting phil, though i am concerned with what they said about the system
not working on headphones.
For gaming I've always found speakers (even my fairly good logitech 5.1
ones), far too imprecise to get the full effect of sound source placement,
meaning headphones for audio games are a must, and the article did state
that this system didn't work particularly well on headphones, and given that
game play in audio needs very precise location of sounds I'm not sure.
So it is probably something that developers are going to have to try when
the technology to output to the new sound sources becomes available. At
least if it is usable on headphones people won't all have to go and spend
flipping great wodges of money on ridiculously expensive speaker systems :D.
Myself, I actually see Aprone's See monkey as the way that vertical sounds
could be represented by simply changing the sterrio field as you move your
head up and down. For example, I could imagine a game like Donkey Kong where
you could effectively look above and below your character's current position
by raising and lowering your head and changing the sounds in the sterrio
field. this would not be ideal, sinse manifestly you would need to focus on
each vertical area of the screen to be able to get information about it, but
it would be able to provide a lot more than is currently available, indeed
it sort of mimmics the way I sometimes have to play games with my limited
field of vision by looking at different areas of the screen successively.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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