Eurecat shows its new immersive and interactive 3D sound technology at Sónar+D 2017

With the name of Sfëar, the researchers of the Eurecat technology center (member of Tecnio) show, until next time 16 June at this event in Barcelona, this advance that makes it possible for sound to react to head movement.

The technology center Eurecat (member of Tecnio) presents these days in Barcelona, at the international creativity event, innovation and digital culture Sonar+D, its new immersive and interactive 3D audio technology Swear, which allows the sound to react to head movement.

“At Sónar+D we present the music production tools with immersive 3D sound that we have developed in the last year, with the added value that they are totally interactive - explains the director of audiovisual technologies at Eurecat, Adan Garriga-, so that artists and producers can see how they work”.

Sfëar technology will soon be on the market, with the goal of “providing the music industry with immersive 3D sound tools for production, post-production and music playback with headphones”, Garriga points out.

Specifically, Sfëar offers tools for production with headphones and headtracking, so that “the sound reacts to the movement of the head of the person listening to it”, adds the researcher, while highlighting the potential of this technology to create live three-dimensional songs and music sessions, as well as to produce and distribute music and immersive audio content on mobile devices using headphones.

As Garriga points out, Sfëar tools “are compatible with most of the software used by creatives. Now an artist can make 3D music without changing their work system. 3D sound will be the new standard in the field of audio, as was the emergence of stereo sound in the fifties and the transition from stereo to the system 5.1 in the eighties”.