SONY

So immersive. So real

Immerse yourself in sound all around you.
As real as if you are there at a live concert or
with the artist recording in a studio.
With 360 Reality Audio, music has never been
so immersive and so real.

Certified Products

Amazon

Echo Studio

High-fidelity smart speaker with 360 Reality Audio and Alexa.

Audio Technica

ATH-TWX9: Wireless In-Ear Headphones

Innovative, authentic sound space

Customize your sound space with these truly wireless headphones for high-quality music and calls. The ATH-TWX9 headphones enhance your listening experience with a comfortable fit and noise-cancelling for immersive audio, topped off with Snapdragon™ Sound support for a revolutionary new way of listening and a thorough UV sanitization system for superior cleaning care.

Denon

Denon AV Receivers

The heart of your home theater – play anything and everything with the very latest technology from Denon.*

Marantz

Marantz AV Receivers

AV Receivers are the master and commander of a home theater. Use an AVR to connect devices to your TV and feel every moment of excitement and subtlety.*

McIntosh

MX123 A/V Processor

Uncompromising McIntosh sound quality with the attest home theater technologies.*

nwm ONE

nwm ONE
Revolutionary sound experience.

Open-Ear Headphones from Japan with built-in technology that suppresses sound leakage while offering premium sound and spatial reach. Functionally elegant with a minimalistic design weighing merely 6.5oz, the headphone design provides ventilation and stress-free comfort for an overwhelming sense of freedom. A headphone that feels like a speaker in the room that only you can hear.

Sennheiser

SENNHEISER AMBEO Soundbar

Hear the future of home cinema in one beautiful bar.

Sony

Headphones / Smartphones / Home Theater, Speaker Systems

With 360 Reality Audio certified products, sound has never been so immersive and so real. Each sound—whether it’s vocals, instruments, sound effects, or voices—can be placed in a 360 spherical sound field with location data. This allows listeners to experience an immersive, three-dimensional sound field as intended by the artists and creators.

* To experience 360 Reality Audio, it requires Amazon Fire TV (Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen / Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd Gen / Fire TV Stick 4K 2nd Gen) connection.

Solution Providers

Analog Devices

SHARC® ADSP-2156x and SHARC® ADSP-2159x

High performance, digital signal processor for high performance deterministic audio decoding and processing

ADSP-2156x and ADSP-2159x are 64-bit floating point SHARC ® processors with large internally memory and well pipelined architecture that enable artifact-free audio decode and processing. They execute a wide variety of decoders including Sony’s 360 Reality Audio.

Stream Unlimited

StreamSDK + Stream1955 module

Flexible, portable solution for streaming audio functionality

StreamSDK is a flexible, multi-dimensional software solution, portable to various classes of silicon, which enables the application of streaming audio functionality.
Stream1955 System-On-Module enables a breakthrough for connected Smart Soundbars and Speakers. Immersive audio decoding done in the SoC – no DSP required.

About 360 Reality Audio

Japanese site

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Japanese site

What is 360 Reality Audio?

360 Reality Audio starts a new music era and sets the next standard for music listening.

  • 360 Reality Audio defines a new music ecosystem utilizing an object-based spatial audio technology based on MPEG-H 3D audio.
  • 360 Reality Audio relies on an open format standard that extends across content creation, delivery & playback devices.
    • Creation tools to empower labels, mixing studios, producers and audio engineers
    • A Playback library optimized for music streaming on mobile applications
    • Open format for hardware makers and platformers
  • 360 Reality Audio gives artists and creators a new way to express their creativity from individual instruments to audience with complete dynamic control of each and every sound within a 360 spherical sound field.

More immersive sound with a new audio format

For more information, please visit “360 Reality Audio Site”

What you can do with 360 Reality Audio license

Join a new music ecosystem for content creation, distribution and playback.

Create 360 Reality Audio content. Distribute 360 Reality Audio content. Develop 360 Reality Audio certified devices. Create 360 Reality Audio content. Distribute 360 Reality Audio content. Develop 360 Reality Audio certified devices.
PC and Mobile Games / Create games with spatial audio PC and Mobile Games / Create games with spatial audio

Details of 360 Reality Audio license – Content Provider

Create 360 Reality Audio content

  • 360 Reality Audio license enables editing and encoding of 360 Reality Audio content.
  • Find out more about 360 Reality Audio content creation.

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Distribute 360 Reality Audio content

  • 360 Reality Audio license enables playback of 360 Reality Audio content on supported music service apps.
  • A format license agreement is required.
  • Development requirements:
    • Implementation of 360 Reality Audio Decoder/Renderer/Virtualizer
    • Receive parameters from the headphones companion app
Implementation of 360 Reality Audio Decoder/Renderer/Virtualizer and Receiving parameters from the headphones companion app brings playback capability of 360 Reality Audio content on supported music service apps.

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Develop 360 Reality Audio certified headphones

  • 360 Reality Audio license enables adding a personalization feature to your headphones which optimizes the listening experience when using supported music service smartphone apps.
  • Development requirements:
    • Implementation of personalization features in the headphones companion app
    • Passing a sound quality test
Implementation of personalization features in the headphones companion app and passing a sound quality test brings adding a personalization feature to your headphones which optimizes the listening experience when using supported music service smartphone apps.

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Develop 360 Reality Audio certified speaker

  • 360 Reality Audio license enables developing 360 Reality Audio certified speakers.
  • Development requirements:
    • Implementation of MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoder/Renderer/Virtualizer
    • Implementation of Cast Receiver for 360 Reality Audio content
    • Passing a sound quality test
Playback of 360 Reality Audio content on speakers via Cast Receiver


Chromecast built-in™ Supports playback of 360 Reality Audio content. Learn about Chromecast for Audio.
Chromecast built-in is a trademark of Google LLC.
<https://www.google.com/chromecast/built-in/audio/>

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Develop 360 Reality Audio certified Smartphones

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Develop 360 Reality Audio certified Automotive Products

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Create PC and mobile games with spatial audio

  • Gaming Virtualizer by 360 Reality Audio license enables the development of PC and mobile games in spatial audio. Development license is available at free of charge. A paid commercial license is required at the time of game sales.
  • Development requirements:
    • Audiokinetic‘s audio middleware WwiseⓇ must be implemented
Gaming Virtualizer by 360 Reality Audio” was developed with the cooperation by Audiokinetic, and is used as a plug-in for “WwiseⓇ” the audio middleware provided by it. Since this software is used as a plug-in to “WwiseⓇ” game sound design for each platform, such as mobile and PC, can be done in a common way.
mobile game

Mobile game

Get immersed, even when gaming on the go, with enhanced realism and surround sound.

pc game

PC game

Get the edge in any battle, with the ability to precisely locate your enemies in 3D space, thanks to the immersive sound placement.

Experience it now

PRINCIPLES PROLOGUE is a short adventure game by COLOPL that pushes the boundaries of smartphone graphics, and lets you experience the latest in 360 Reality Audio sonic immersion. The sound of footsteps and rustling clothing resonates through the cave, and the buzz of a bare electrical circuit thrills! Download it here to experience it for yourself.

Download here

App Store

Google Play

Overview and Implementation of Gaming Virtualizer

This section introduces “Gaming Virtualizer by 360 Reality Audio”  exhibited at CEDEC 2024. The video is for sound creators and engineers, showing its concept, effects, implementation, and free trial of gaming Implementation.

00:57Agenda
02:53About 360 Reality Audio
04:41Overview of Gaming Virtualizer
08:51Implementation
18:23Free Trial

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360 Reality Audio

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MPEG-H 3D Audio

For more information about MPEG-H 3D Audio
Please visit http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/mpeg-h

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