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  • Sony 360 Reality Audio

    Sony will debut its own 360 Reality Audio speakers this spring

    Sony plans to expand its 360 Reality Audio platform with new speakers and more content.

    Billy Steele
    01.08.2021
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    Sony is still trying to make 360 Reality Audio a thing

    At CES last year, Sony impressed me with its carefully planned headphone and speaker demos for 360 Reality Audio. The 2019 installment of the show was the debut for the company's immersive audio standard -- technology that we would repeatedly hear about until Amazon debuted the first device that could handle it: the Echo Studio. I wrote that Sony had created what I hoped would be the future of music, and I still feel that way. However, thus far, Sony has made the technology available on headphones through its audio companion app, via a camera-based ear calibration tool. But it still hasn't announced a speaker of its own, or added the capability to existing devices.

    Billy Steele
    01.07.2020
  • Sony’s headphone app will soon analyze your ears for 360 audio

    Back at CES, Sony unveiled 360 Reality Audio, a new standard/format/ecosystem for immersive sound on headphones and speakers. The headphone demo at CES was very technical and quite sensitive as calibrating sound profiles to your ears required a thin wire underneath some studio-grade cans. The company was clear in January that the goal would be for anyone to do the calibration with their phone, by taking a picture of their ears. At IFA, Sony is showing off how that feature will work inside its current Headphones app.

    Billy Steele
    09.06.2019