Shortly I came across an mp3, titled the “Virtual Hair cut”, and believe me I was bewitched by the level of hearing illusion. By the time I finished the mp3, I got hold of my hair to assure that they are 'there' and It was just an illusion!!
So highly recommended, download and play it with the Headphones on!! (Headphones are a must).
Virtual Haircut
A Matchbox:
Womans Voice
Auditory illusion?
Most of us are aware of the fun side of Optical illusion but auditory illusion is a less popular term. Auditory Illusion is the illusion of hearing sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or impracticable sounds. The illusion demonstrates our ability to locate sounds in space; by comparing the inputs to the two ears, we can work out where a sound is coming from.
For those who are interested in going into details of “Whats going on?”
Now The Technology Part!
So as its supposed to be a technology blog, the technology part:
The fact.co.uk reports that several projects are exploring the potential for creating an illusion of presence within virtual audio environments and researching ways to piece together illusory space onto an existing space through the use of a hyper real 3D audio system to provide an invisible but realistic “Parallel world” .
Researcher’s are looking forward to the prospects of transmitting a 3D audio experience live (in realtime) from one place to another via the internet. Other longer term project exploring various viewer tracking devices as a ‘hands free’ interactive model for realtime audio composition.
wow thats crazy! excellent post
This doesn’t really work for me. It just gives me a headache because the sounds are weird.
At the Last bit of the Haircut he came right up to me…
Creepy
…I am blown away that a simple 192kbps mp3 and a cheap pair of earbuds just outdid any surround sound system I have ever heard. This is amazing, I’ve seen “simulated surround sound” options before, but this blows everything away. Why isn’t this method used in anything…?
I have cheap but nice “7.1″ ( yeah, silly ) headphones. This was giving me CHILLS.
With ALL of the possibilites in mind ….Now think of the FOLLOWING : When will they be able to ISOLATE the heads of EACH and every cinema
goer and THUS be able to USE the Audience as an interactive “3rd Person”?
Specifically, could things could be whispered into individual movie-goers ears? Could DIFFERENT things be whispered SIMULTANEOUSLY to Different watchers and thus create varying REACTIONS by the Audience?
Could hundreds of “isolated” microphones be used to capture the indivisual movie-goer’s response and THEN
CATER the movie Visually for those movie-goers? The high-tech query is not only SOUND, but have multifarious PLOTS [ say 12 different possible options] which would be shown to the INDIVIDUAL viewers according, in each case, how they RESPOND. Now would that be different?
wow when he came up an whispered in my ear it was like he was right there. i kept expecting to feel his breath on my neck or something.
Rather impressive… I can’t wait til this is put into video games and movies and such