TOKYO -- Sony Group has developed a way to simulate in-person concerts on smartphones, with technology that re-creates three-dimensional sound in real time.
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Hikaru Utada performs Jan. 19 at an online event that Sony bills as the world's first livestreaming to use full object-based spatial sound technology in real time. (Photo courtesy of Sony)
TOKYO -- Sony Group has developed a way to simulate in-person concerts on smartphones, with technology that re-creates three-dimensional sound in real time.