Ultimate Spatial Audio Index

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This page is a resource for spatial audio as it relates to the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality. If you know of any other links that can be added, please contact me.
Last Updated 12/17/96

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Table of Contents

Virtual/3D Audio
Audition	Application	Communication	Information	Transmission
Audio Files	Companies	Conferences	FAQs	Freeware/Shareware
Music	Research	Mailing Lists	Links	Hardware
	VRML	Newsgroups	Literature	Software
		Organizations/Societies	Journals
		People	Tutorials

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Virtual/3D Audio Audition:
Audio Files

• Holophonic Samples
• QSound Samples
• Samples of Processed 3D Audio
• SRS Audio Samples and Other Goodies

Music

• The Binaural Source
• Cyborgasm
• Interactive Sound Installation
• Netfield an Internet Sound Environment
• Virtual Audio Sampler

Application:
Companies

• 3D Sound
• Aureal
• CATT-Acoustic
• Crystal River Engineering
• Firsthand
• Headspace
• Holophonics
• Intel Corp. Realistic Sound Experience (RSX) for the Internet
• Lake DSP
• Level Control Systems
• MuscleFish
• NuReality
• Paradigm Simulations Inc.
• QSound
• Reality by Design
• Roland Corporation RSS-10 Sound Space Processor Product Information
• Sony IMAX Theatre
• Spatializer Audio Laboratories
• SRS Labs
• VSI Visual Synthesis Incorporated
• Waves, Inc.

Research

• 3D Acoustic Model Testbed at Colorado State University
• 3D Sound Imaging for Immersive Environment Simulation at Trinity College, Dublin
• 3D Virtual Sound Project at Stanford University
• The AA-Lab (The Auralization and Acoustics Laboratory) at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Ambisonic Surround Sound
• Army Research Laboratory
• Audio Animation
• Audio/Music Engineering at University of Miami
• CCRMA- Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University
• CNMAT- Center For New Music and Audio Technologies at University of California, Berkeley
• CSound Project
• DIVA- DIgital Virtual Acoustics
• HDRL- Hearing Development Research Laboratory
• Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab at University of Washington
• HUT Acoustics Lab
• Interval Research
• IRCAM
• The Mercator Project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories
• MIT Media Lab: Machine Listening Group
• NASA: Auditory Science and Technology
  • 3-D Audio Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System
  • Annual Report: FY95: 3D Audio
  • Localization in Reflective Environments
  • Measurement of Personalized HRTFs
  • The Role of Dynamic Information in Virtual Acoustic Displays
  • Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) Program -- Taxi Navigation and Situation Awareness (T-NASA) System: 3-D Audio Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS) & Navigation System
• SCCP Virtual Reality SOUND at University of Aizu
• Simulations (Auditory Virtual Space) at the Parmly Hearing Institute
• Sound Localization Research at San Jose University
• Spatial Audio Generator Web Page -- a Java applet under development that spatializes sound supplied over the Internet
• Spatial Audio Work at Georgia Tech
• Spatial Hearing with Complex Stimuli at UC Berkeley
• Spatialized Audio at New York University
• The WORLDSONG Project

VRML

• Audio in VRML by David Engberg
• At Intel:
  • RSX VRML Sound Node Proposal (pre-VRML 2.0)
  • Realistic Sound for the Internet: A Demonstration of Realistic Sound Integrated into VRML Worlds
• VRML 2.0 Browsers with 3D Sound
  • Community Passage by Sony
  • Cosmoplayer by SGI
  • Liquid Reality by Dimension X
  • Worldview by Intervista
• VRML 2.0 Spec: AudioClip Node
• VRML 2.0 Spec: Sound Node
• VRML and Audio by Eli Breder
• VRML Audio Extensions by William Martens
• VRML Audio Tutorial at dFORM

Communication:
Conferences

• International Computer Music Conference
• ICAD International Conference on Auditory Display

Mailing Lists

• auditory@vm1.mcgill.ca- focuses on auditory perception research. To subscribe, send email to owner-auditory@vm1.mcgill.ca
• ICAD Mailing List- to subscribe, send email to icad-request@santafe.edu
• sound@acm.org- focuses on the computation of sound. To subscribe, send email to sound-request@acm.org

Newsgroups

• comp.dsp
• comp.lang.vrml
• comp.music.research
• sci.virtual-worlds

Organizations/Societies

• Audio Engineering Society
• Interactive Audio Special Interest Group- part of the MIDI Manufacturing Association (MMA) that focuses on 3D audio
• SIGSOUND a Special Interest Group of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) that focuses on techincal issues on sound software and hardware

People
This list is incomplete and intended as a general guide for people involved in spatial audio worldwide.

• Marko Antila
• Durand R. Begault
• Jens Blauert
• Phil Brown
• Dr. Richard Duda
• Tom Erbe
• Angelo Farina
• Scott Foster
• Ari Hollander
• Jyri Huopaniemi
• Eugene L.Jhong
• Gary Kendall
• Minoru Kobayashi
• William Martens
• Keith Martin
• Malcolm Slaney
• Russell Storms
• Barry Vercoe
• Elizabeth Wenzel

Information:
FAQs

• DSP FAQ
• Multidimensional and surround sound systems

Links

• Audio and Three Dimenisional Sound Links
• Euphonia (French)
• Spatial Sound Links

Literature

• 3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia by Durand Begault
• Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments
  Edited by Robert Gilkey and Timothy R. Anderson
  ISBN: 0-8058-1654-2
  approx. 816pp. $89.95
  
• Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization: Revised Edition
  by Jens Blauert
  The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.
  ISBN: 0-262-02413-6
  480 pp. 215 illus.
  $35.00 (cloth)
  
  • Book Review
• Bibliography for the "IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing", 1980-1989
• DIVA - DIgital Virtual Acoustics Publications
• ICAD- Related Books and Other Publications
• Online Publications
  • An Architecture for Spatial Audio Servers by David Burgess and J.C.Verlinden (27K .ps file)
  • Cellular Approach for Modeling Room Acoustics:A Framework for Implementations Based on the Ray Tracing Algorithm by Navdeep S. Dhillon
  • A Computational Model of the Precedence Effect and Sound Localization in Reverberant Environment by Jie Huang
  • Design and Implementation of an Auralization System with a Spectrum-Based Temporal Processing Optimization by Frank Filipanits Jr.
  • An Exploration of Virtual Auditory Shape Perception by Ari J. Hollander
  • Modeling the Elevation Characteristics of the Head Related Impulse Response (HRIR) by Phil Brown (380K .pdf file)
  • NPSNET-3D Sound Server: An Effective Use of the Auditory Channel by Russell Storms (442k .ps file)
  • Spatial Sound at SIGGRAPH: Is It 3D? by William Martens
  • Syncronized Structured Sound: Real-Time 3-Dimensional Audio Rendering by Araz Inguilizian
  • Technical Reports from MIT Listening Group (.ps files)
  • Techniques for Low Cost Spatial Audio by David Burgess (35K .ps file)
  • Technologies for Three Dimensional Sound Presentation Issues in Subjective Evaluation of the Spatial Image by Elizabeth A. Cohen, PH.D
  • Three Dimensional Sound for Data Presentation in a Virtual Reality Environment by Luis F. Tavera (308K .ps file)
• Sound Localization Bibliography
• Virtual Audio Bibliography at HITLab

Journals

• Applied Acoustics
• Computer Music Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
• Leonardo Music Journal
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments- has occasional audio papers

Tutorials

• "The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production"
  Author: Durand R. Begault
  Publisher: Academic Press Professional
  ISBN 0-12-084738-8 $44.95
  Mac and PC version on one disc
  Phone Order: 1-800-321-5068
  

Transmission:
Freeware/Shareware

• SoundHack
  for Macintosh. Includes binaural filter from HRTFs of Durand Begault.
• Virtual Sonic Space for SGI

Hardware

• Acoustetron II Audio Server from Crystal River Engineering
• AMES Spatial Auditory Display (ASAD)
• Core Sound Binaural Microphones
• Lake DSP hardware
• Neumann KU 100 Binaural Head
• Soundstorm 3D by Reality by Design
• Spatializer hardware
• QSound hardware

Software

• Aurora by Angelo Farina
• Audio and Music Applications for Silicon Graphics Systems
• AudioWorks2 from Paradigm Simulations Inc.
• Proton plug-in from Crystal River Engineering
• Lake DSP software
• QSound plug-in software
• PT3D plug-in from Spatializer Audio Laboratories
• Space Nodes Software from Level Control Systems
• TrueVerb v1.1 Reverb/Distance, Virtual Space Processor from Waves, Inc.