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Additional Discussions on 3D Audio

Thursday of the MPEG week was spent editing the “Thoughts on 3D Audio” document from the 98^th meeting. Significant changes were made to the Evaluation Procedures section. Additionally, it as agreed to name the resulting output document “Draft Use Cases, Requirements and Evaluation Procedures for 3D Audio.”

The Chair asked experts in the room if their company has a 22.2 channel-capable listening room, and found that the following companies did have such a facility:

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  FhG
  
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  NHK
  
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  ETRI
  
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  Huawei
  
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  Samsung
  

In addition, it was felt that the following organizations might be able to make their rooms available:

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  University of Southampton
  

The Audio Chair urged audio experts to submit as contributions to the next meeting an edited version of this output document that better expresses their point of view. Finally, the Chair strongly urged experts to develop test procedures appropriate for the Personal TV and Mobile TV use cases. These use cases represent the most rapidly growing part of the 3D Audio market, and if they are not tested as part of the Call, there is no guarantee that the will be addressed by the Call!