beyond surround sound: York U. binaural research

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On 2 Feb 2005 19:51:35 -0800, brucewmiller@gmail.com wrote:

>York University scientists are using your facial geometry to customize
>headphones intended to create a true three-dimensional binaural sound:

"We envisage booths in the high street, like those used for passport photos,
where customers can have the shape of their head and ears measured easily.
The shape information will be used to quickly compute an individual's
spatial filters."

"The result – sounds heard through headphones should be indistinguishable
from hearing the same sounds live."

http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/pressp [...] dsound.htm

Ahem.