The Bluetooth SIG is preparing for lossless and spatial audio formats. Standardization reduces proprietary requirements and licensing fees. These formats are unlikely to appear until the next decade.

Though it was never mentioned during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 keynote, Apple will add a very cool new feature to its AirPlay streaming technology in the fall: support for ...

Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer’s full collection of content that supports spatial audio. Netflix initially ...

Google is enabling support for dynamic spatial audio over Bluetooth LE Audio in Android 15. Dynamic spatial audio allows for the direction of sound to change based on the listener’s head movements.

Apple says Spatial Audio gives artists the opportunity to create immersive audio experiences for their fans with true multidimensional sound and clarity. Dolby Atmos is an immersive audio experience ...

If you’ve been in a movie theater recently, you may have noticed that the sound is a whole lot more immersive. That’s thanks to spatial audio, a type of surround sound. The most well-known version is ...

In the first article, Spatial Audio Trend Sparks New Opportunities in Digital Health, we explored some of the history, nomenclature, and prior trends behind the world of spatial audio. In this article ...

Apple is offering to pay artists more money if they provide Apple Music with versions of their songs recorded in the immersive Dolby Atmos Music format, according to a report from Bloomberg. On the ...

Everyone loves spatial audio, of course. After all, if what George Lucas said is true and that 50 percent of the enjoyment of a movie comes from its soundtrack, then the more immersive and enveloping ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...