By Jamie Carter
Virtual reality sounds terrible. The bevy of 360-degree video cameras are visually immersive, but what they lack is convincing ‘lifelike’ audio. Cue the Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset, which we first saw at CES 2017 in January. It has an omni-directional microphone on each ear that record the sound surrounding the videographer, from whatever angle it comes in from. Is this a new personal audio frontier?
The concept behind the Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset is simple; it can record moving sound. If you take a video of a car driving from left to right across the shot while wearing it, the audio will move with it. Using an omni-directional microphone in each ear, it records the audio where you hear it. And it gets better; the recorded audio can then we played back through any regular pair of headphones.
Although Sennheiser’s expensive Ambeo VR 3D Microphone was released last year – and it first debuted its MKE 2002 binaural microphone back in 1974 – its Ambeo Smart Headset is the first consumer-grade ‘personal virtual reality’ product with a omni-directional microphone. It’s not on sale yet; that’s due to happen in summer, but we got our ears on an early, working …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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