
Spatial Audio: Hear, There, Everywhere
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How Do You Create 5.1 Surround Sound With Two Earpieces?
We have a special algorithm that Google has developed that is called the spatializer algorithm which runs on the phone. And when you listen to a movie, it has to have a soundtrack with a certain number of channels. We take all of those, it's kind of like you hear about 5.1 surround sound. We then process it on the phone and we play it back through your earbuds to sound like it's coming actually from the outside world.
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