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Virtual Audio Links

June 1999

CONTENTS:

Books Online Papers Research Commercial

Books:

“3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia”, Durand R. Begault, 1994 hardcover ISBN: 0120847353)

“3-D Audio Using Loudspeakers”, William G. Gardner, 1998, ISBN: 0792381564

“An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing”, Brian C. J. Moore, 4^th Ed 1997, ISBN 0125056273

“Spatial Hearing : The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization”, Jens Blauert, John S. Allen (Translator) 1997, ISBN: 0262024136

Online Papers

Jarrel Pair, Georgia Tech GVU, “Virtual Environment Sound Design Primer“, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/jarrell.pair/primer.html

Richard Duda, “3-D Audio for HCI”, 1996, http://www-engr.sjsu.edu/~knapp/HCIROD3D/3D_home.htm

William G. Gardner, Wave Arts Inc. , “3D Audio and Acoustic Environment Modeling”, http://www.wavearts.com/3DWhitePaper.pdf

Aureal Inc. “A3D Technology Pages” http://www.aureal.com/tech

Creative Labs “Environmental Audio Resources” http://www.creative.com/eaudio/resource

Research Links

Richard Duda, San Jose State U., “Research Pages”: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~duda/Duda.Research.frameset.html

US Naval Postgraduate School, “Spatial Sound Links” : http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/phd/storms/Interact/soundResearchLinks.html

David Wareing's Audio and Three Dimensional Sound Links: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wareing/3daudio.htm

Commercial APIs and Systems

Company	Products
Aureal Semiconductor 4245 Technology Drive Fremont, CA 94538 USA Tel: (510) 252-4245 Fax: (510) 252-4400 http://www.aureal.com	Vortex Chips accelerate HRTFs used on several consumer boards such as Diamond Monster Sound, Turtle Beach Systems, Xitel, Orchid, I/O Magic, etc. A3D API.
Creative Technology, Ltd. Creative Technology Ltd 31 International Business Park, Creative Resource, Singapore 609921, Republic of Singapore Creative Labs, Inc. 1901 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA http://www.soundblaster.com	Soundblaster Live audio boards based on EMU10K1 effects processor chip. EAX™ environmental audio sdk
Discreet Sim 10 rue Duke, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 2L7 Tel: 514.393.1616 Fax: 514.393.0110 http://www.discreet.com	FLAME - SGI Graphics and Audio tool
E-MU Systems, Inc. 1600 Green Hills Road P.O. Box 660015 Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0015 USA Tel: (831) 438-1921 Fax: (831) 438-8612 http://www.emu.com	Designs, manufactures and markets professional digital audio equipment based on DSPs and proprietary chips. Wholly owned subsidary of Creative Technologies
Human Machine Interfaces, Inc. 4656 Scottdale St., Suite 100 Eugene, OR 97404 USA tel: 541.687.6509 fax: 541.689.9048 http://www.humanmachine.com	WaveSurround plugin for the Winamp MP3 player, InMotion 3D Audio Producer, Infinite Audio SDK, Sound Operating System API.
Ircam (Institute Of Research And Coordination In Acoustics / Music) 1, place Igor-Stravinsky F-75004 Paris http://www.ircam.fr/produits/logiciels/log-forum/spat-e.html	Le Spatialisateur (Spat®) for SGI Unix systems.
Lake DSP Australia G.P.O. Box 736 Broadway Post Office NSW 2007 Australia. Suite 502, Level 5, 51-55 Mountain Street Sydney, NSW, 2007 Australia. Phone: +61 2 9211-3911 Fax : +61 2 9211-0790 http://www.lakedsp.com	High end audio DSP boards and systems for audio researc, etc. Huron Workstation, CP4 Digital Audio Convolution Processor, other peripherals and software.
Microsoft DirectSound 3D API Part of DirectX	GVU Demo code for DS3D: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/audiolab/gvu3daudio.zip documentaion can be found at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/audiolab/3daudio.html
RAD Game Tools, Inc. 335 Parkplace Center Ste G109 Kirkland, WA 98033 USA Tel: 425-893-4300 Fax: 425-893-9111 http://www.radgametools.com	Miles Sound System – higher level audio API for efx, mp3, etc. Supports A3D, DirectSound, Dolby Surround EAX, Qsound, RSX. Bought RSX audio tech from Intel.
QSound Labs, Inc. Suite 400, 3115-12 Street North East Calgary, AB. Canada T2E 7J2 Tel: 403.291.2492 Fax: 403.250.1521 http://www.qsound.com/gamedev	QMDX™ - Free DirectX/Windows® Audio Software Development Kit provides interactive and preprocessed 3D Audio.
Sun Microsystems Inc. http://www.sun.com/desktop/java3d	Java3D and Java Media APIs
VSI Visual Synthesis Incorporated 4126 Addison Rd. Fairfax, VA 22030 Telephone: 703.352.0258 FAX: 703.352.2726 http://www.vsicorp.com/info.html	Audio Image product family: SoundCube, Audio Architect, Sonic Architect Software Toolkits for Unix and PC systems. KIM High Speed VME interface for MIDI Applications.
Wave Arts, Inc. 99 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 7 Arlington, MA 02474 USA Tel: 781-646-3794 Fax: 781-646-7190 http://www.wavearts.com	Bill Gardner’s company – excellent 3D audio background. Several products in cooperation with Human Machine Interfaces Inc.