Development of World’s First 3D Sound System Paving the way for the Ultimate 3D TV

Group of researchers at National Institute of Information and Communication Technology otherwise know as NICT have successfully developed the world’s first 62-channel 3D sound systems. The 3D sound system is capable of creating composition areas by subdividing the equator of a sphere into 20 parts as well as dividing both the upper and lower part of its hemispheres in half, so the sound can be emitted through 62 directions. This method will achieve an improved precision in which the sound source orientation can be represented, resulting in an acoustic representation that can be perceived more easily due to the resolution that is 2.5 times better horizontally and 1.5 times better vertically than conventional devices.
This novel technique will make it easier for the listener to perceive, for example, the direction in which a singer is facing or the movement of a violin player during a performance. Through this method, the types of reproducible sound sources are also increased, resulting in a better sense of presence and realism. I conventional sound systems such as stereo or 5.1 channel systems in 3D imaging will reproduce sound source only in one direction or even worse the sound source orientation and motion can not be reproduced at all

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