Why waiting until 2020? It should be possible with available technologies. A Kinect camera (or two spaced cameras) could be used to detect the positions of the speakers from the listener's point of view, then the same Kinect could be placed in front of the listener to report its listening position. -- Marc
Richard Dobson <richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk> a écrit : > There is still a little time - James Moorer wrote in his paper "Audio > in the New Millennium" (JAES 2000): > > "In 2020 loudspeakers will know where they are". > > I suppose the other point to make is that those billions of people > are blissfully unaware that a 5.1 system is "difficult to set up". It > just takes approximately three times as long to set up as a stereo > system. An approximately surround arrangement, furniture permitting, > seems to work splendidly, given the nature of the majority of film > soundtracks. > > Richard Dobson > > > > On 26/09/2013 05:14, David Worrall wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Thanks for your considered response. > > > > I _was_ actually thinking of it autolocating the speakers. And not > > necessarily just for ambisonics, actually. Some sort of a spectrum > > analyser/preamplifier device that derived the correct decode/gain > > controls of the real system acccording to the actual location of the > > loudspeakers, decode algorithm and your preferred listening spot ... > > and that self-callibrated each time you turned the system on. > > > > Given how difficult it seems to be for billions of people to set up > > a 5.1 system, surely there must be a market? > > > > I'm actually surprised that such a device doesn't already exist. Oh > > well, back to the stone-age method... > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
