Gadgetory

hardware canucks CES coverage is made possible by our partner invidia it is also made possible thanks to corsair phanteks and NCIX a virtual reality is on the rise and we talked about the impressive visuals the amazing latency reductions in headsets but nobody really touches upon audio side of things and if you think about it is it's just as important for proper 3d immersion as the visuals themselves son Heiser has been hard at work to design and test the world's first virtual reality microphone or unless fancy clickbait terms a 3d microphone that records everything around it literally in every direction for this 9.1 surround sound and then using an accelerometer inside the headphones to determine the proper audio projection for the user in whatever direction that you're facing they have done the demo with recording sound properties and some of the world's most popular clubs and then create a frequency response that matches to that of what you would hear in that space so you can move your head around in all directions to hear what it would actually sound like if you were to move your head in that space it's actually quite fascinating to be able to not only recreate the sound staging of these rooms but also with the help of the accelerometer inside the headphone to move the virtual reality projection for the audio and this is the microphone behind all these VR recordings and it's still a little early prototype but we just wanted to share that we must not forget about proper audio when it comes to virtual reality and it really seems that son Heiser is right in line with designing the proper way to compliment 3d audio when vr truly becomes mainstream