{"id":21116,"date":"2016-01-23T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/for-vr-to-be-truly-immersive-it-needs-convincing-sound-to-match"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:51:29","slug":"for-vr-to-be-truly-immersive-it-needs-convincing-sound-to-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/for-vr-to-be-truly-immersive-it-needs-convincing-sound-to-match","title":{"rendered":"For VR to be truly immersive, it needs convincing sound to match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjsZfIoihKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The VR sound barrier; how do we address?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I\u2019m staring at a large iron door in a dimly lit room. \u201cHey,\u201d a voice says, somewhere on my right. \u201cHey buddy, you there?\u201d It\u2019s a heavily masked humanoid. He proceeds to tell me that my sensory equipment is down and will need to be fixed. Seconds later, the heavy door groans. A second humanoid leads the way into the spaceship where my suit will be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Inside a wide room with bright spotlights I notice an orange drilling machine. \u201cOK, before we start, I need to remove the panel from the back of your head,\u201d says the humanoid. I hear the whirring of a drill behind me. I squirm and reflexively raise my shoulders. The buzzing gets louder, making the hair on the nape of my neck stand up.<\/p>\n<p>Then I snapped out of it. I removed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/06\/the-oculus-rift-costs-599-and-ships-in-march\/\">Oculus Rift<\/a> DK2 strapped on my face and the headphones pressed on my ears and was back on the crowded floors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/08\/presenting-the-best-of-ces-2016-winners\/\">Consumer Electronics Show<\/a> in Vegas. But for a few terrifying seconds, the realistic audio in Fixing Incus, a virtual reality demo built on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/NickLaMartina\/20160104\/262896\/Sound_Sensation_and_Spatialization_A_Postmortem_of_quotFixing_Incusquot.php\">RealSpace 3D audio<\/a> engine, had tricked my brain into thinking a machine had pulled nails out from the back of my head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/22\/vr-needs-3d-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VR sound barrier; how do we address? I\u2019m staring at a large iron door in a dimly lit room. \u201cHey,\u201d a voice says, somewhere on my right. \u201cHey buddy, you there?\u201d It\u2019s a heavily masked humanoid. He proceeds to tell me that my sensory equipment is down and will need to be fixed. Seconds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44373,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions\/44373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}