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Spatializer: a web-based positional audio toolkit

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Beomjoo Seo,

Min Min Htoon,

Roger Zimmermann,

Chung-Dau WangAuthors Info & Claims

ACE '10: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

Pages 57 - 61

https://doi.org/10.1145/1971630.1971647

Published: 17 November 2010 Publication History

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The web is becoming increasingly multimedia enabled and visuals have paved the way to the point where high quality online videos and detailed three-dimensional virtual worlds are now a reality. Innovative audio applications have been lagging somewhat, but positional audio system are gradually gaining attention as they help people to attain a better spatial perception and immersion into three-dimensional virtual spaces by presenting important spatial cues. However, existing positional audio systems provide either interactive, live voice communications for networked virtual environments or 3D renderings of pre-recorded sounds, but not both. Here we describe our web-based prototype system called Spatializer that encapsulates positional audio functionalities for both dynamic voice communications and static sound sources, all in a peer-to-peer toolkit with a simple yet powerful unified web interface.

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Spatializer: a web-based positional audio toolkit
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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ACE '10: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

November 2010

136 pages

ISBN:9781605588636

DOI:10.1145/1971630

General Chairs:
Victor R. L. Shen
National Taipei University, Taiwan
,
Henry Been-Lirn Duh
National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Masahiko Inami
Keio University, Japan
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Program Chairs:
Michael Haller
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
,
Yoshifumi Kitamura
Tohoku University, Japan

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Lei YLu QXu Y(2022)O&O: A DIY toolkit for designing and rapid prototyping olfactory interfacesProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3502033(1-21)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
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Cohen MVillegas J(2011)From whereware to whence- and whitherware: Augmented audio reality for position-aware services2011 IEEE International Symposium on VR Innovation10.1109/ISVRI.2011.5759650(273-280)Online publication date: Mar-2011
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