Intermodal audio–haptic intermodal display: improvement of communication and interpersonal awareness for collaborative search tasks

Ammi, Mehdi; Katz, Brian F. G.

doi:10.1007/s10055-015-0273-5

Cited by 5 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It can now include several additional sensory modalities, i.e. sound (Maffei et al 2015;Erkut et al 2018;Schoeffler et al 2015), touch (Richard et al 2006;Ammi and Katz 2015) and smell (Jiang et al 2016;Cheok and Karunayaka 2018;Kerruish 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

3D sound spatialization with game engines: the virtual acoustics performance of a game engine and a middleware for interactive audio design

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study analyses one of the most popular game engines and an audio middleware to reproduce sound according to sound propagation physics. The analysis focuses on the transmission path between the sound source and the receiver. Even if there are several ready-to-use real-time auralization platforms and software, game engines' use with this aim is a recent study area for acousticians. However, audio design needs with game engines and the limits of their basic releases require additional tools (plugins and middleware) to improve both the quality and realism of sound in virtual environments. The paper discusses the use of Unreal Engine 4 and Wwise's 3D audio production methods in a set of different test environments. It assesses their performance in regard to a commercial geometrical acoustics software. The results show that the investigated version of the game engine and its sound assets are insufficient to simulate real-world cases and that significant improvements can be achieved with use of the middleware.

show abstract