The way sound technology has evolved historically is that we started with a mono speaker, which is just a single sound source. Then we went to stereo speakers, which are 2 speaker. The commercial state of art is 5.1, where you have 5 speakers. In concerts which are supposed to be the best musical experience of your lives, we still have mono speakers and at best stereo speakers. What we have built
is radically different. What we propose is that everyone who enters the concerts gets a wearable speaker. Which means that if there are 10k people in a concert, you are hearing sound from not just 2 speakers in front of you but from thousands of speakers distributed all across the concert. This gives the listeners an unprecedented feeling of being immersed in sound since the sound is coming from all directions and not just the front. Also since we have control over thousands of speakers and not just 2, this allows us to create completely new sound effects which are not even possible with just 2 or 5 speakers. This is not just a cool theory, we tested this out in surbahar, convocation hall on 12th October 2015 where we connected 283 speakers. One of the participants walked up to us and said that his experience was “magical”. It is this kind of feedback that prompted us to build this into a full time commercial venture from just a one time cool demo. This is 3D sound, and this is how you will experience sound in the future.
