A gift for the next Christmas: Virtual Reality (VR) headset for music / movies / …
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/5940#post_11158898
multi-channel audio-video file > VR audio-video player with virtual surround sound engine running on Android smartphone with 4K display slotted into a VR headset > PCM stream > USB audio out >> portable USB DAC/amp >> headphones
multi-channel audio-video file > VR audio-video player running on Android smartphone with 4K display slotted into a VR headset > multi-channel PCM stream > USB audio out >> portable USB DAC/amp with virtual surround sound engine >> headphones
Nowadays, we can spend an intimate moment with a musician at work in his studio loft in a virtual reality way by using a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and a Samsung GearVR headset.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/6015#post_11185404
We can go to a giant screen movie theater at anytime, anywhere in a virtual reality way by downloading a movie file into the Galaxy Note 4 and launching the Oculus Cinema app.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/6105#post_11216174
"It was better than sitting in a real theater, and immediately made me wonder why I'd ever go to a theater again if I could get my movies this way. When Carmack told me he watched the entire Matrix Trilogy and a full season of Max Headroom in there, I got a bit jealous. It feels like a true killer app for virtual reality."
http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-galaxy-note-4s-virtual-reality-ambitions-1646853596
The basic tools (virtual surround sound engines, Software Development Kits, ...) are available.
Developers should be encouraged to enter this new Next Big Market.
Everyone has a smartphone; everyone can go to a movie theater, the opera or a concert theater at anytime, anywhere in a virtual reality way by just adding an inexpensive phone accessory, a virtual reality headset.
Our consumer needs should be widely known.
A tweet to encourage developers to add Dolby Vision HDR (High Dynamic Range) in the Oculus Cinema app (the source code of this virtual reality app is freely available) in order to get a personal portable giant screen Dolby Cinema theater:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/sensory-assault-dolby-takes-imax-753479
https://twitter.com/DanielBa78/status/554760575088357377