Spirit of place – The only time I have truly felt spirit of space within a man made structure has been at Segrada Famillia in Barcelona, Spain. The building was made by Antoni Gaudi in 1882. When stepping inside it is as if you are at one with god and is very spiritual, no other building has ever made me feel like this.
Our VR experience is going to be linear and the player is going to have to go through the rooms to progress within the experience, therefore we are going to follow a linear sound structure and sounds will play as the player interacts or passes items within the experience.
Ambisonics order – how many microphones we’re using. 0,1,2,3. Mono Audio is ambisonics on level 0
A-Format vs B-Format
XYZW – Up, Down, Left, Right, Width
What is Ambisonic(s)?
• Surround recording and playback technique, Michael
Gerzon 1970s
• Little commercial success so far, patents expired
• Independent of playback loudspeaker configuration,
scaleable
• 2D and 3D sound-fields can be synthesized