castleofargh
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but head tracking might just be 50% of the effect. any small head movement we do when trying to locate a sound(even if we're not conscious about it) are tricks used by the brain and if they don't echo a change in audio, ou brain can't be completelly fooled.
the only thing stopping me is that IMO, there is no way the smyth realiser A8 is worth the price proposed. when the "elite" stuff for head tracking costs 150$(trackir, but you can find much cheaper and still pretty good), I have a hard time thinking I should pay 20times more for what could be 100% software.
still as tracking companies don't realy see the point of headtracking for sound alone or looking at a movie in 2D, nobody seems to care about working on it and you can only have fun with that in games
which is sad because as other mentioned, the technology has been around for years. in my head I imagine 2015 with a trackir clipped onto our headphone, something to play foobar or some videos using fraunhofer cingo 3D stuff (that has sound following head tracking in it from what I've read) and that stuff could sell for 300$ and still make a crazy huge benefit margin. at the moment the only reason that justified the Realiser to be this expensive is that it's a rare combination of 2 very generic techs.
the only thing stopping me is that IMO, there is no way the smyth realiser A8 is worth the price proposed. when the "elite" stuff for head tracking costs 150$(trackir, but you can find much cheaper and still pretty good), I have a hard time thinking I should pay 20times more for what could be 100% software.
still as tracking companies don't realy see the point of headtracking for sound alone or looking at a movie in 2D, nobody seems to care about working on it and you can only have fun with that in games
which is sad because as other mentioned, the technology has been around for years. in my head I imagine 2015 with a trackir clipped onto our headphone, something to play foobar or some videos using fraunhofer cingo 3D stuff (that has sound following head tracking in it from what I've read) and that stuff could sell for 300$ and still make a crazy huge benefit margin. at the moment the only reason that justified the Realiser to be this expensive is that it's a rare combination of 2 very generic techs.