VR audio makes sense as part of a virtual audio-visual experience. But VR sound without pictures makes my head spin. Virtual-reality surround sound — also known as 3D audio, binaural, 5.1 or whatever ...

Spatial audio is having a moment. While the goal of offering a more immersive, 3D-like listening experience may have been born in movie theaters, much of the conversation around spatial audio has ...

Sound recording has been a consumer technology for so long now that it is ubiquitous, reaching for a mobile device and firing up an app takes only an instant. Anyone who takes an interest in audio ...

The BBC will stream a special binaural audio edition of this week's Doctor Who episode via its iPlayer. Knock Knock will air this Saturday at 7:20 PM GMT in the UK, followed by iPlayer at 8:10 PM. The ...

Binaural recordings different from the recordings you get with a standard stereo microphone, in that they result in so-called '3D audio'. This is due to the two microphones' placement — on the head at ...

We’re all used to hearing surround sound in cinemas – and perhaps even at home with the right set-up – but until now, what we’ve always listened to through headphones has been in stereo. That’s all ...

Sennheiser's high-tech headset puts microphones as well as earbuds in both your ears to produce incredibly immersive binaural 3D audio effects that really put a listener in the room with you. It also ...

On a crisp afternoon late last year, I made my way to Manhattan’s Upper East Side to meet Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Choueiri also ...

Let the beat drop...your anxiety levels. We’re not talking about any old beats, but ones some therapists are using as a form of sound-wave therapy to help their patients combat anxiety. They’re called ...