There were already many posts about the Cave, but I have yet to write about the design process which led us to create the prologue to the main show. The Cave was not only a VR experience. The first thing the audience experienced when entering the project space was an audio soundscape. Our goal was…
Today I would like to share with you a powerful experience I had recently in Seattle. It does not happen very often to me to hear something which changes my perspective and opens new doors for creativity. I carefully treasure these moments in my memory as a challenge for my own work. Last week I…
Today is an important day – Cave will be finally presented to a public audience at SIGGRAPH! Because of this, I would like to talk about sound specifically in the Cave project. I lead Cave’s audio team with the help of Dennis and Tatiana who did a tremendous job preparing the sounds and programming the…
In the previous post, I argued that XR experiences cannot exist without sound, and more precisely – 3D sound. Today I will give a brief introduction to 3D sound. Imagine yourself standing in the forest. You hear a gentle noise coming from the tree leaves above you, and a singing bird on the branch beside…
XR experience cannot exist without sound. Sound is often undervalued in many types of media but in XR environments its role is particularly crucial for designing a truly immersive experience. Some time ago, when I read this paper, I was fascinated by the extent to which vision and hearing complement each other. We hear…