Binaural 3D audio/HRTF in Racer?

[gtpdzbiz]

Hi
Just listened to a wonderful demo of HRTF audio and it's amazingly realistic,
http://onemansblog.com/2007/05/13/get-your-virtual-haircut-and-other-auditory-illusions/

(use with headphones, does not work with speakers)

And looks like fmod also supports HRTF atm, perhaps it can be integrated into the Racer's audio system?

http://www.torquepowered.com/community/blogs/view/16489

 

[Mr Whippy]

They are a bit mental

Would be interesting to record sounds for your car like that, just place the microphones on your ears while you drive

I think Racer also now supports stereo sounds for car samples, so using them on the interior views would be pretty cool!

Dave

 

[FiftyOrange]

Why don't they work anywhere near as well with speakers? I've got a Dolby 7.1 system which I thought was pretty good at the spatial stuff.

 

[DavidI]

A bad analogy would be to current 3d TV technology, a seperate image has to be seen be each eye. This is similar, it feed each ear a fairly different signal and your brain is tricked into decoding direction from it. Stereo speakers don't isolate the signal to each ear, you hear a mix of Left & right in each ear, which messes up the HRTF tricks.

 

[boomer541]

Many, many years ago I had a racing game that had terrific sound. When driving up a canyon and another car was overtaking me I turned around to see where the car was beacause the sound came from behind me. All this in the days of DOS.

 

[KS95]

Some of the old DOS games were seriously impressive lol.

 

[FiftyOrange]

A bad analogy would be to current 3d TV technology, a seperate image has to be seen be each eye. This is similar, it feed each ear a fairly different signal and your brain is tricked into decoding direction from it. Stereo speakers don't isolate the signal to each ear, you hear a mix of Left & right in each ear, which messes up the HRTF tricks.

I see.

How would this sort of thing affect the commercial side of Racer?