Web interface for designing and sharing sound space

Abstract

Services of sharing information such as videos or images become popular on the internet. Flickr or Youtube is one of the most successful websites. On the other hand, high quality contents created by professionals today use multi-surround audio or 3-Dimensinal CG. On the internet, web services that consider spatiality of information also have appeared. However, up until now, 2-Dimensional display has been used to get or share the 3-Dimensinal information of web services. As a result, its spatiality was lost and reality that information essentially had also was lost. To solve this problem, firstly we have developed low-cost and scalable 3-D auditory display. In this research, we developed the system for designing sound space that can be reproduced on our auditory display. This system gives us intuitive designing interface like general image processing tool and enables us to share sound space on the web. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.