Sony expands 360 Reality Audio, adding video support, and more
Picked by Techconnect's Editors I wrote an in-depth review of Sony’s 360 Reality Audio system last year, and I was quite impressed with the spaciousness of the sound it produced in headphones. Introduced in 2019, 360 Reality Audio is an object-based, immersive-audio system, not unlike Dolby Atmos or DTS:X in principle, though its intended application is music rather than soundtracks. Content creators mix audio tracks using immersive-audio tools, placing instruments and voices anywhere within a virtual 3D space. The final mix is encoded in MPEG-H, an audio codec that supports immersive audio...