On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 20:39, Stefan Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote: > > In other words: > > Is there a way to get access to the orientation data of the Airpods?
That is *not* the same question but in other words. I have a sneaking suspicion that the roundtrip and processing latency inherent in the wireless connection would make this approach utterly impractical. The decoding would have to be done on the device to be bearable to listen to without making the listener feel disoriented. It's the same problem as with VR headsets. In that case it's common to shift the image x pixels left/right/up/down as it's being drawn to make it match the latest position information, and not rely just on having the computer shift the view, which might take many tens, if not hundreds of milliseconds. In this case, the most likely solution is to figure out what encoding the Airpods expect, and somehow convert your data to that format and figure out how to send it to the Airpods. > P.S.: It is of course possible (and very likely “utterly legal”) to > hack this device. Because you have bought it. (Otherwise Apple would > pretend that some headtracker sensor functions of their > head-/earphones would be “copy-protected”, or alike. This seems to be > a nonsense idea, right from the start. Trade secrets? But why are you > then selling a product in the first place? It is your risc if < your > > customer discovers how your product is functioning, even outside > the limited world of iOS... It might be legal to do so if you could, it's just not possible. Or at least very difficult. If they cryptographically verify any code before it's allowed to run, you'd have to figure out a way to crack or bypass that check. iOS is a high enough value target that people continually develop jailbreaks for it. Airpods might not be interesting enough for that to happen. I hate it as much as the next somewhat freedom minded guy, but such is life. (Note, I've never owned any Apple phones or audio products, and never will.) /Didrik _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
