A SIP SPATIAL AUDIO SERVER FOR THE EVE PLATFORM

Ch. Bouras, V. Triglianos, Th. Tsiatsos

2008

Abstract

When it comes to 3D Virtual Environments it is well known that 3D sound is of great importance to the whole interactive experience. The percept of sound is a major counterpart for the eyesight, since it describes the location, the momentum and the attitude towards the listener, of each surrounding entity. The sound can offer precision of spatial perception that cannot be achieved by the eye itself. Thus the support of 3D surround sound of high fidelity is mandatory for a 3D Virtual platform. The evolution of Internet telephony led to the introduction of new session establishment and management protocols. The most important of them, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), is a robust, lightweight reliable and fast application-layer control (signaling) protocol that is highly adopted for creating, modifying and terminating sessions. This protocol can be of extreme importance in establishing audio sessions for multi-user platforms. This paper presents the work done for developing a SIP 3D spatial audio server for a multi-user virtual environments platform, called EVE, in order to support 3D spatial audio.

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in Harvard Style

Bouras C., Triglianos V. and Tsiatsos T. (2008). A SIP SPATIAL AUDIO SERVER FOR THE EVE PLATFORM . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 395-402. DOI: 10.5220/0001095203950402


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp08,
author={Ch. Bouras and V. Triglianos and Th. Tsiatsos},
title={A SIP SPATIAL AUDIO SERVER FOR THE EVE PLATFORM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={395-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001095203950402},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - A SIP SPATIAL AUDIO SERVER FOR THE EVE PLATFORM
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Bouras C.
AU - Triglianos V.
AU - Tsiatsos T.
PY - 2008
SP - 395
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0001095203950402