Link:
http://www.headwize.com/ubb/replypro...fnum=4&tid=889
Most recent news I could find today.
short summery (please read the whole thing - its not long)
The surround effect created was able to mimic the real speaker surround sound close enough as to trick the listener into confusing speakers with headphones. Again we see a statement that clearly hints at a great potential for headphone surround. There was a slight critic of problems with the headtracking device, but I think its fixible - and besides the headtracking device is the icing on the cake really - I mean, you don't nessecarily have to move your head around when watching a movie - but I'm sure it helps with creating the illusion.
Please Headfi - lets put some interest and effort into helping this technology on its way. There most be millions of people worldwide like me who lack the space or wont disturb neighbours by using a normal speaker set up, and who don't want a comprimize in sound quality. It is also likely that it will end up much cheaper than speakers.
I think this most be one of the biggest next steps within the headphone-world, so spread the word. Imagine being able to listen to movies recorded in the new high def standards such as dolby trueHD, or dts+, fully fledged 7.1 taken directly out of a high def player via hdmi 1.3 or analogues and fed into the 'magi box' and then into your headphones. you wont ever need a speaker setup or a receiver, and the sound might even come out better as no room-limitations need concern you. Heck, the technology might even be incorporated into the dvd player itself for minimal fuss. Admittantly this is in the future, but the faster things go the sooner we shall see it happen.
I think smyth virtual are working as fast as possible to make a commercial product, so I guess its not worth buggering them to much about news. I will try and write up something here when/if I get some news. My point is, lets bring this technology to the attention of the big companies. At the moment dolby headphone is becomming slightly more popular, but why not skip this evolutionary step and go for the gold. The fisrt hd players from toshiba are soon to hit the streets - lets tell 'em about our requirements for the next generation players - maybe SVS could become a indespensible weapon in the format war (blu-ray vs. hd dvd) just like the other surround-formats - that way we would surely see it.
And I havn't even mentioned the possible added pleasure of listening to regular stereo using SVS (as I usually bring up in my posts
) think about the huge soundstage!
Anyway, enjoy your music.
Cheers