Dave Malham wrote: > Oh, for cryin' out loud. Makes you want to weep - Microsoft reinventing > again what's already been done and (most of) the rest of the world > believing they're the originators...
I am no fan of Microsoft, but this seems a little harsh. Quickly producing an approximate personalized HRTF using only head and shoulders is new, and potentially useful. From the MIT Technology Review article: "That somewhat eerie experience was made possible because less than a minute earlier I had sat down in front of a Kinect 3-D sensor and been turned briefly to the left and right. Software built a 3-D model of my head and shoulders and then used that model to calculate a personalized filter that made it possible to fool my auditory senses. ... Tashev’s system is a new twist on an old idea. ... When Tashev quickly scans a person’s head, his software generates an approximation of that subject’s HRTF that seems good enough to produce unusually accurate spatial audio. ... Tashev says he is now working to improve the capture system and make it smooth and speedy enough to be something a person with a Kinect camera might be able to do at home. Mark Billinghurst ... says that the approach developed by Microsoft could have a broad impact if the scanning process can be made practical enough." Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
