This paper describes a strategy for recording sound and enabling six-degrees-of-freedom playback, making use of multiple simultaneous and synchronized Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) recordings. Such a strategy enables users to navigate in a simulated 3D space and listen to the six-degrees-of-freedom recordings from different perspectives. For the evaluation of the proposed approach, an Unreal Engine-based navigable 3D audiovisual playback system was implemented. Subjective listening tests were conducted which compare the quality of the prepared walk-through.

Authors: Ciotucha, Tomasz; Ruminski, Andrzej; Zernicki, Tomasz; Mróz, Bartlomiej
Affiliations: Zylia sp. z o. o., Poznan, Poland; Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 150 (May 2021) Paper Number: 10459
Publication Date: May 24, 2021 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Ambisonics
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