When you go to movie theater, you look forward to a special experience. If you want to live this at home, you have to install a home cinema. It could be expensive, it requires lot of space and only fits in one room. Moreover, according to Hollywood movie producers, it is the sound that brings the emotion. So it seems awkward to have a full HD or a 4K TV with only stereo sound.

That’s why new audio formats are being introduced, like MPEG-H 3D Audio or Dolby Atmos. That’s why we have created Neoh, the first smart 3D sound headphones. It reproduces cinema sound, anytime, anywhere.

These headphones integrate spatial sound rendering, making the most immersive sound experience in history. Neoh is a true wearable home cinema. These headphones use motion sensors, including gyroscopes, accelerometers and magnetometers. The sensors’ data are sent to our application by a Bluetooth Low Energy chip. The sensors track every one of your movements. Indeed, you do not stay completely motionless while watching a movie, and we have to offset even the smallest of your micro-movements to completely immerse you in your activity. This is due to a psychoacoustic effect.

We humans locate sounds based on the time differential between its perception via each of our ears, and on the way sounds are shaped by acoustic filters known as Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) depending on our individual faces and ears. 3D Sound Labs has developed algorithms with the ability to reproduce these spatial perception mechanisms and therefore detect the tiniest movement of the head to reconstitute sound sources in space and in real time.

3D Sound Labs aims to revolutionize the user audio experience. And it seems to be on the right way as the company just completed a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Images courtesy of 3D Sound Labs