Holophonic

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Cereni%20-%20Holophonic.mp3

This is the .mp3, giving you an example. For the full effect use headphones with volume pretty high, trust me, it is worth it!

For the whole explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holophonic

This seems to be quite a cool technology enabling AMAZING 3D sound for 2 speakers (No surround sound needed).
This made me look around quite a few times, and felt sometimes as if the sound was coming from the middle of my head! Even with 2 speakers (Use Headphones) you can feel the sound as if it were from below, or above. The sound example is great, with a box of rattling matches being passed all around, you feel there is someone in the room doing it.

Now imagine this effect for HL2

A: This is not new. How many years has this stuff been out? (several)
B: Most audio hardware can do this.
C: Half-Life 2 already has 8 (or 6, can't remember) channel audio ... So, no imagining needed, or simulation.

You should have put this in the "recently found" thread. Since this is nothing new.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Something similar was sold to me as "virtual Dolby Surround" (I think) for my TV. It gives you a perfect surround feeling when watching movies when wearing headphones (which I mostly do).

HL2's 8 channels don't help if I hear with headphones. Although the sound's still pretty good it hardly gives me the "3D-feel".

There are does headphones which supposedly create a similar effect automatically. They're too expensive but I'd get a pair of those once the price drops to a reasonable level.

Have you guys tried listening to this?
I just found it being discussed on TWHL, so I thought I would post it here also.

Ive heard it, and it only works on headphones. sounds stereo on 5.1. so I just use my 5.1 Setup. eos

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I need a new sig

Halflife 1 used a similar and just as impressive technology called A3D. There was actually much controversy over this, as it was so effective that it gave users with this soundcard a legitimate advantage in deathmatch games. It was so accurate that you could pinpoint a person walking above, below or anywhere around you. Couple this with a gun that shoots through walls causing massive splash damage on the other side (gauss gun) and you've got hundreds of player spamming walls, targeting people strictly through sound.

Trust me, I owned 2 of these A3D cards and it was VERY impressive. This is nothing new, but still interesting.

Never noticed you there, Dred_furst. Evil.

Finger, I loved using sound. I never got into HLDM, but using sound in CS was such an advantage.

I could do that with EAX, pinpointing people I mean. I've never used A3D, but if it was even more precise then... :smile:

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