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Even if everyone is talking about the financial crisis that is going to turn our lives into nightmares if we don’t pay enough attention to what we do in the next couple of months (some say years, which is even more frightening), companies are still interested in the technological progress. After all, the world must go on, no matter what.



This is why NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier from Japan, has just made an announcement, concerning new developments in mobile phone technology. These developments consist of a “highly efficient mobile spatial audio transmission technology” that is designed to help people using a mobile phone to associate a sound source with a spatial position. This is possible when the users are listening to several sound sources, when they are at a game, for example, or during a conference call.



“The technology enables a user listening with headphones to, for example, hear each speaker’s voice as if it were coming from a unique direction, creating a virtual face-to-face communication environment”.

The efforts aren’t in vain, or at least this is what NTT DoCoMo hopes. This is why they try to push things a little bit further, planning to commercialize the results of the research under the form of applications that are envisaged to include mobile conference calls, online games and, why not, tele-education.

DoCoMo will have the chance to demonstrate the new spatial audio transmission technology on HT-01A devices, which are part of the DoCoMo PRO series, at an event that will take place on May 12 and 13 at Pacifico Yokohama, called Wireless Technology Park 2009.

(Source: unwiredview.com)