{"id":2714,"date":"2015-11-17T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2023-06-08T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T01:18:23","slug":"vr-audio-for-all-vr-audio-for-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"VR Audio for all, VR Audio for none"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m super excited about VR and can&#8217;t wait for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Samsung-Gear-VR-Innovator-Edition\/dp\/B00QZLOFK4\">consumer headsets<\/a> to be available, but I&#8217;m really bummed that very few consider anything at all about the audio portion of VR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several companies that make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360heros.com\/\">camera harnesses<\/a> or camera rigs and only one that I&#8217;ve seen so far addresses the issue of audio for VR (fingers crossed for <a href=\"https:\/\/ozo.nokia.com\/\">Nokia<\/a>). The issue is, how do you record spherically and not have the mic in the shot? Most camera rigs use Go Pro cameras, but made no accommodation for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core-sound.com\/TetraMic\/1.php\">mic array<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/get\/cardboard\/jump\/\">Google Jump<\/a> makes space for the array by not shooting up or down, but their solution for VR audio is to use an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zoom-H2N-H2n-Handy-Recorder\/dp\/B005CQ2ZY6\/ref=dp_ob_title_ce\">H2<\/a>? Seriously!? How can you be so short sighted. It&#8217;s like an entire industry forgot about about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/g\/georgeluca462198.html\">half the experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve checked out a ton of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrideo.com\/\">VR video<\/a> and I can say that across the board, no one is doing the audio right or at all. It&#8217;s really depressing. So I need to be knighted the VR Audio Ambassador whose mission it is to let these companies know that they missed a big part of the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, I will quietly continue my research into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsonic.com\/products\/phonon3d\/\">3d panning<\/a> and the building of immersive audio WITHOUT picture. Take that! You forgot about me. I forget about you. #VR #VRAudio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nokia-ozo-close-side-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715\" width=\"675\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nokia-ozo-close-side-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nokia-ozo-close-side-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nokia-ozo-close-side.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m super excited about VR and can&#8217;t wait for the consumer headsets to be available, but I&#8217;m really bummed that very few consider anything at all about the audio portion of VR. There are several companies that make camera harnesses or camera rigs and only one that I&#8217;ve seen so far addresses the issue of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=2714\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VR Audio for all, VR Audio for none&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}