Augmented reality audio (ARA) represents a well-established and widely investigated concept that typically relies on mixing of the real acoustic environment of a listener with a virtual one. In this work, we conceptually extend this legacy ARA framework, aiming to the increment of the synthesized acoustic field spatial scale primarily in the real world domain. Such an increment actually acts as a virtual wide-angle sound focuser of wide area acoustic fields. We demonstrate the above Augmented Reality Audio Network (ARAN) concept in terms of a live electroacoustic music concert. A subjective evaluation derived strong and secure indications that the proposed ARAN framework may represent a strong alternative potential of legacy ARA in the artistic and creative domain.

Authors: Moustakas, Nikos; Floros, Andreas; Kapralos, Bill
Affiliations: Ionian University, Nikea, Greece; Ionian University, Corfu, Greece; University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario, Canada(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference: 2016 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (September 2016)
Paper Number: 5-2
Publication Date: September 21, 2016 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Streaming Immersive Audio Content
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