• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Nokia implemented stereo sound? Wow, welcome to 1881.

    Meanwhile, the vast majority of people making calls are still going to have only one speaker, so it’ll still get downmixed to mono. Even if your phone has two, and you’re not holding it next to one ear, they’re still going to be so close together as to effectively be one point source.

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      7 months ago

      If only they had developed some kind of companion technology that connected to the phone and directed separate audio channels to each of your ears. Eh, such a specialized device could never gain widespread adoption if stereo phone calls were the only practical use case.

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      7 months ago

      Meanwhile, the vast majority of people making calls are still going to have only one speaker, so it’ll still get downmixed to mono. Even if your phone has two, and you’re not holding it next to one ear, they’re still going to be so close together as to effectively be one point source.

      No, lots of (probably most) phones and other devices has stereo speakers.

      Either way headphones are most often used for this (you know like the thumbnail)

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      7 months ago

      This was true for TVs until it wasn’t.

      Edit: apparently some young whippersnappers don’t know TVs used to be mono before they were stereo, and now some TVs even have spatial sound.

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        7 months ago

        i mean, people have innovated in the areas they care already.

        no one really cares that much about audio on phone calls. as long as they’re understandable.

        people added video because it adds to the communication. spatial audio will not. it will only become common if one or two of these mega corps decide to shoehorn it into ever device. not because people actually want it or care.

        might be a lucrative patent if we ever get holograms though

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          … You realize this has been innovated because someone cares, right?

          Like this is such a silly argument. “Why would we make cars not use steam? If people cared about it we would have already innovated!”

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          7 months ago

          You don’t need the tv for the surround sound, the speakers fit inside tiny devices you can put near each ear.

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          7 months ago

          You can stream your video call to a TV right now, and spatial sound could help match the movement of the people on screen if the phone was stationary for a more immersive call.

          No need to haul anything around, just some creative thinking.

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          7 months ago

          No, clearly we walk around with full 5.1 surround sound speakers on poles.