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Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics

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This chapter highlights some of the challenges faced today in developing immersive communication systems through the lens of early work on the subject done by Manfred Schroeder and others at Bell Labs. Initial applications were for teleconferencing in business scenarios, but current systems have ambitious goals of educational, medical, and entertainment applications that are as transparent as face-to-face collaboration.

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  1. Beats Electronics, LLC, 8600 Hayden Place, Culver City, CA, 90232, USA

    Joshua Atkins

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    James E. West

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  1. The School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

    Ning Xiang

  2. Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

    Gerhard M. Sessler

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Atkins, J., West, J.E. (2015). Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_1

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