From the course: The Basics of 360 Video

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What's spatial audio and do you need it?

What's spatial audio and do you need it?

From the course: The Basics of 360 Video

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What's spatial audio and do you need it?

- So what's spatial audio, and do you need it? The truth is the techniques used to capture spatial sound have been around for a while. Now I like to consider it to be surround sound's over-caffeinated cousin. Meaning that it records sounds spatially and allows you to have immersive experiences when you're viewing 360 content correctly and not being affected by outside stimulus. Now let's just talk about making the experience immersive. When we hear a sound and move around in our own environments, if we change levels or look directly behind us, that sound is going to change. And we're going to hear it differently at different levels of height as well as how we move throughout our world. And this spatial audio sound is mimicking the way that we hear sound in real life. So devices that can record the spatial audio, you'd more than likely want to use an external microphone to do so. Some cost-effective experiences are a…

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