Comparison of Output Devices for Augmented Audio Reality

Audio augmented reality in telecommunication

Telecommunication systems have evolved to allow users to communicate and interact over distance. Audio communication in its most natural form, the face-to-face conversation, is binaural. Current telecommunication systems often provide only monaural audio, stripping it of spatial cues and thus deteriorating listening comfort and speech intelligibility. In this work, the application of binaural a...

Mobile Audio Designs Monkey: A Tool for Audio Augmented Reality

There are many audio design tools available that have filled some of a designers’ needs, but these all are designed with context-ignorant audio in mind. To develop audio for a context-aware environment, at present a designer must have technical skills that are unrelated to the design process. Whereas the designer should be focusing on the creativity, design, and the logic of the Augmented Reali...

3D Audio Augmented Reality: Implementation and Experiments

Augmented Reality (AR) presentations may be visual or auditory. Auditory presentation has the potential to provide hands-free and visually non-obstructing cues. Recently, we have developed a 3D audio wearable system that can be used to provide alerts and informational cues to a mobile user in such a manner as to appear to emanate from specific locations in the user’s environment. In order to st...

Corona: Audio Augmented Reality in Historic Sites

Augmented reality is very well suited to convey information in the context of historic sites, as it is possible to integrate such systems in an unobtrusive manner. In this paper we present Corona, an audio augmented reality experience deployed in the historic town hall of Aachen/Germany. We describe the auralization process and the technology used and give an outlook on interesting research que...

Title: Basic Concepts in Augmented Reality Audio