The   problem for us with ambisonics is in most cases we do not have any
visual reference to confirm or adjust the acoustic  cues to any reference.

There exists papers showing that the we humans locks in to visual cues and
our experience and allows vision to win.

Bo-Erik



Den lör 31 dec. 2022 16:04Chris Woolf <ch...@chriswoolf.co.uk> skrev:

>
> On 30/12/2022 18:33, brian.k...@sorbonne-universite.fr wrote:
> > .... It must be repeated that our auditory system adapts to our own
> local changes, in clothing, hair style, etc. and we are not significantly
> thrown off by such things (at least after adaptive listening for a bit).
> ions, view archives and so on.
>
> Great to see that mentioned.
>
> It has always struck me that we can indeed adapt remarkably quickly to
> local changes in our personal HTRF, and that therefore this needs to be
> considered as a dynamic affair, rather than a purely static one.
>
> If you suffer a temporarily blocked ear - after swimming, say - your
> stereo perception may be bent out of accuracy for a few minutes, but the
> (extreme gain/frequency  inaccuracy gets accounted for within our brains
> and we soon find visual and aural alignment back more or less correctly.
>
> Likewise putting on wooly hat, a coat with a thick collar, or a heavy
> scarf - all objects that should wreck the accuracy of a static HTRF -
> have only the most limited of effects on positional accuracy.
>
> So how much precision is really needed for an HRTF? And how inaccurate
> can it be for our normal correction ability to deal with it?
>
> Chris Woolf
>
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