Dirac Research, the Sweden-based company specializing in digital sound optimization solutions, today announced they're showing off the latest version of its Dirac 3D Audio at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week. With its high-end 3D audio solution the company is...

Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...

Valve today announced the Steam Audio SDK, a spatial audio plugin that the company says is made is designed to "enhance all interactive products, specifically VR applications." The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity,...

VR Bangers, an adult virtual reality content studio, has announced a new gadget they say will help fans "finally feel like they are getting kissed and caressed, while their favorite girls whisper right into their ears." While it's undoubtedly bizarre...

Here's a close look at Sennheiser's new AMBEO VR microphone in all its glory as demonstrated at last week's CES 2017 in Las Vegas. It's the company's first step into VR audio and it's just received wide release for a...

AMD has announced TrueAudio Next a "scalable" physics-based audio rendering engine for generating environmentally accurate, GPU accelerated audio for virtual reality. AMD has announced a set of key technologies to bolster its open source technology arsenal represented by GPUOpen, this...

In surprise news, it seems that the British company behind the excellent 3DCeption spatial audio pipeline Two Big Ears, has been acquired by Oculus' parent company Facebook in a move set to see their technology included alongside Oculus' to...

At Nvidia's special Editors Day event in Austin, Texas, the company unveiled an enhancement to it's VRWorks APIs which now includes what it says is the first "Physically Based Acoustic Simulator Engine", accelerated by Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia and AMD's focus on...

Les Borsai from Dysonics, specialists in spatial audio, ponders whether spatial, 3D audio's time has finally come with the advent of consumer ready virtual reality and what more needs to be done to keep it evolving. Guest Writer Les Borsai Les Borsai...

Oculus' Audio SDK is now officially out of beta, giving developers a range of audio spatialization plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine, and audio middleware along with a free library of over 500 high-quality sound effects designed by Oculus specifically for use...

Oculus launched the latest beta version of their dedicated Audio SDK on the 5th November, bringing a selection of new features and the version up to 1.0. Check inside for the release notes. Oculus has stated that it's committed to...

3D spatial audio specialists Two Big Ears have launched a new 'Spatial Workstation', a platform for audio engineers to mix and edit immersive audio with realtime feedback leveraging VR headset head-tracking information. Two Big Ears have been quietly building a...