Google open-sources Omnitone library for decoding spatial audio on the web
Google today announced that it has open-sourced Omnitone, a piece of software that developers can use to incorporate spatial audio into websites. The software is available now on GitHub under an Apache license.
To give people a sense of what’s possible Google has also posted two videos featuring spatial audio to demonstrate what’s possible with Omnitone.
The demos depict musicians performing at multiple angles. If your headphones are plugged in, you can rotate what you’re seeing onscreen and hear different parts of the audio more loudly or more softly depending on your position relative to the source of the audio in the video. This approach depends on eight virtual speakers, Hongchan Choi and Raymond Toy from the Google Chrome team wrote in a blog post.
