Object-based audio is a
revolutionary approach for creating and deploying interactive, personalized and
immersive content. This is possible by representing the audio content as a set of
individual assets together with metadata describing their relationships and
associations. This allows media objects to be assembled in ground-breaking ways to
create new user experiences.
Object-based audio principle
Some popular examples for an object-based application are e.g.
- personalized dialogue/background control
- 360 videos along with 3D audio
- seamless adaptation of the content to the end user device and playback format
- and many more
With the introduction of HTML5 and the Web Audio API, an important prerequisite was made for native rendering of object-based audio in modern browsers. The IRT developed an open-source framework that allows content producers to publish their object-based content via the Internet. This framework is available on github. The entire rendering is done in the browser by using built-in APIs of modern browsers.
We also published a demo page where the framework is used to demonstrate some of the great features and possibilities of object-based audio. Check out the demo!
With a few lines and a little JS knowledge, you can use the framework on your page:
<script src="dist/bogJS-latest.js"></script>
<script>
var om;
$(document).on('om_ready', function(){
om.start();
});
om = new ObjectManager('path/to/sceneFile.spatdif');
</script>