Immersive Arts Final Project Critical Evaluation
Summary of project
This immersive arts project war born out of my research into and around how to elicit the emotion of positive awe in an audience. It aimed to do this by
Spatial Audio
Immersive Arts Lab Prototype
Introduction
My various experiments with a range of immersive technologies (with differing levels of success) determined the direction I went with a prototype immersive project.
Inspired by the speed and relative ease of
360 Ambisonic Sound Recording
For my tests I used a Zoom H3-VR recorder which features a 4 microphone ambisonic array.
The device is very simple to use… select a format – Ambisonics A, Ambisonics B (FuMa/AmbiX), then
Spatial Audio composition
With hearing being arguably the sense we have managed to most closely recreate with the most real to life results, audio is of great importance in achieving immersion.
Working in the Reaper DAW
Hearing, sound and audio for immersion
The importance of sound
Hearing (or audio perception) is the process of physical vibrations being transferred to and picked up by the nervous system, which in turn are experienced by the brain as