Spatial audio — bringing realistic sound to 360 video - Facebook Engineering
New 360 audio encoding and rendering technology makes maintaining high-quality spatial audio throughout the pipeline — from editor to user — possible for large-scale consumption for the first time. The sound quality remains high because we support what we describe as "hybrid higher-order ambisonics," an 8-channel system with rendering optimizations to incorporate the quality of [...]Read More...
22 Feb 2017 ... New 360 audio encoding and rendering technology makes ... extract the audio metadata (whether YouTube ambiX or Facebook 360 format) to ...