Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins

2016-03-08 Thread David Pickett
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2016-02-28 Thread Stefan Schreiber
len moskowitz wrote: OSSIC (formerly Sonic VR) has designed prototypes of headphones that do automatic HRTF calculation and headtracking. They will support ambisonics (They have a TetraMic system.) They are seeking development and production funding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstar

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2016-02-27 Thread len moskowitz
The OSSIC Kickstarter campaign has now raised more than eight times their fundraising goal. They're at over $811,000 with more than 50 days left to go. One video on the Kickstarter page gives some hints how they're deriving HRTF. It implies that they measure the inter-ear distance, plus two

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2016-02-27 Thread Peter Lennox
93155 From: Sursound [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Schreiber [st...@mail.telepac.pt] Sent: 27 February 2016 18:57 To: umashankar manthravadi ç; Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign B

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2016-02-27 Thread Stefan Schreiber
e two degrees of freedom. Best, St. Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Stefan Schreiber <mailto:st...@mail.telepac.pt> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 8:07 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group <mailto:sursound@musi

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2016-02-25 Thread umashankar manthravadi
t; for Windows 10 From: Stefan Schreiber<mailto:st...@mail.telepac.pt> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 8:07 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Stefan Schreiber wrote: > Augustine Leudar wrot

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2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber wrote: Augustine Leudar wrote: do you have a reference/source for that - that shoulder head reflections dont matter in anechoice etc etc - I would be interested to read it... They just arrive later than direct sound. And if the HRTF length is too short and so you don't hav

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2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Schreiber
986> for Windows 10 From: Marc Lavallee<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 11:30 PM To: sursound@music.vt.edu<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:27:36 + Politis Archon

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2016-02-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
probably using the rotating >> head information against a quasi static soundfield that includes body >> reflections. >> >> umashankar >> >> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> From: Marc

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2016-02-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
:28 > To: Surround Sound discussion group > Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins > > Augustine Leudar wrote: > > >Actually that does make sense - though what it does to the resolution > >of localisation or whether pinna filtering will work with t

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2016-02-25 Thread Augustine Leudar
do not need >>> individual HRTFs. I am not sure what different head sizes will do. If the >>> foam support compresses (and the distance to the drivers is fixed) it may >>> not matter. >>> >>> umashankar >>> >>> Sent from Mail<ht

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2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Schreiber
ilto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:27:36 + Politis Archontis wrote: On 24 Feb 2016, at 16:04, Steven Boardman wrote: Yes. Richard Furse’s Blue Ripple Sound uses HRTF tinting in their decoder, it works v

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2016-02-25 Thread Peter Lennox
e.net/profile/Peter_Lennox -Original Message- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Stefan Schreiber Sent: 25 February 2016 16:28 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Augustine Leudar wrote: >Actua

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2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Schreiber
t;mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Not sure they would. As they are over the ear headphones, one doesn’t need pinna HRTF as ones own would function. They probably made HRTF files for each driver position. That way your own pinna effects would funct

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2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Schreiber
=550986> for Windows 10 From: Steven Boardman<mailto:boardroomout...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:20 PM To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Not sure they would. As they are over the e

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2016-02-24 Thread umashankar manthravadi
Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Marc Lavallee<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 11:30 PM To: sursound@music.vt.edu<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins On Wed,

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2016-02-24 Thread Marc Lavallee
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:27:36 + Politis Archontis wrote: > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 16:04, Steven Boardman > > wrote: > > > > Yes. > > > > Richard Furse’s Blue Ripple Sound uses HRTF tinting in their > > decoder, it works very well. Although I think he may have a patent > > on it…:) > > > > S

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2016-02-24 Thread Politis Archontis
> On 24 Feb 2016, at 16:04, Steven Boardman wrote: > > Yes. > > Richard Furse’s Blue Ripple Sound uses HRTF tinting in their decoder, it > works very well. Although I think he may have a patent on it…:) > > Steve > Hi Steve, what is HRTF tinting? I haven’t heard the name before.. Archonti

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2016-02-24 Thread Steven Boardman
Yes. Richard Furse’s Blue Ripple Sound uses HRTF tinting in their decoder, it works very well. Although I think he may have a patent on it…:) Steve On 24 Feb 2016, at 13:48, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > If HRTF an applicable concept when using 4 drivers per ear to spatialise > sound? > > --

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2016-02-24 Thread Marc Lavallée
gt; for > Windows 10 > > From: Marc Lavallée<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:28 AM > To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins > > It’d be nice to

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2016-02-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > From: Steven Boardman<mailto:boardroomout...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:20 PM > To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Beg

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2016-02-24 Thread umashankar manthravadi
kId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Steven Boardman<mailto:boardroomout...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:20 PM To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Not sure they would. As the

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2016-02-24 Thread Steven Boardman
Not sure they would. As they are over the ear headphones, one doesn’t need pinna HRTF as ones own would function. They probably made HRTF files for each driver position. That way your own pinna effects would function. Steve On 24 Feb 2016, at 11:30, Augustine Leudar wrote: > Theyd still hav

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2016-02-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
;> OSSIC is an eight driver system. >>>> >>>> >>>> umashankar >>>> >>>> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>>> Windows 10 >>>> >>>> From: Marc Lavallée<mai

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2016-02-24 Thread Corentin Guézénoc
ailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins It’d be nice to learn more about the auto-calibration feature. It looks like only the diameter of the head is monitored. — Marc On Feb 23, 2016, at 10:48 PM, len moskowitz wrote: OSSIC (formerly Sonic VR

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2016-02-24 Thread umashankar manthravadi
rround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins Umashankar - so you'd imitate ILDs and ITDs ? From what Ive read shoulder reflections play an important role as well as the shape of the head - so Im not sure if Pinna refl

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2016-02-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
> >> umashankar >> >> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> From: Marc Lavallée<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:28 AM >> To: Surround Sound discussion group<

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2016-02-24 Thread Augustine Leudar
t;https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > From: Marc Lavallée<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:28 AM > To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] OSSIC Kicksta

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2016-02-23 Thread umashankar manthravadi
driver system. umashankar Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Marc Lavallée<mailto:m...@hacklava.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:28 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group<mailto:sursound@music.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Sursound]

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2016-02-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
It’d be nice to learn more about the auto-calibration feature. It looks like only the diameter of the head is monitored. — Marc > On Feb 23, 2016, at 10:48 PM, len moskowitz > wrote: > > OSSIC (formerly Sonic VR) has designed prototypes of headphones that do > automatic HRTF calculation and h

[Sursound] OSSIC Kickstarter Campaign Begins

2016-02-23 Thread len moskowitz
OSSIC (formerly Sonic VR) has designed prototypes of headphones that do automatic HRTF calculation and headtracking. They will support ambisonics (They have a TetraMic system.) They are seeking development and production funding on Kickstarter:    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/248983