Immersive Sound Experience - What's Next to Expect?

An immersive sound is an experience where the listener perceives the sounds created by speakers as coming from an infinite number of points. This means the sound designer/ composer creates a multi-dimensional sound that completely envelops the listener.Close your eyes and imagine the sound of a race car speeding around a track for a moment. Immerse yourself deep into the experience. Can you see the car approaching in the distance, off on the right side of the screen? As it moves closer, it gets louder and zooms across the screen from right to left as it goes past you. The sound screams off the left edge of the screen and continues down the left wall until it disappears into the distance behind you.A sound designer could, in theory, recreate this sound carefully using three speakers - a right speaker, center speaker, and a left speaker. The designer could associate the sound of that race car with locations (coordinates) that move smoothly across the front of the room and then down the left side of the room. It is the same sound, but now with metadata telling the playback system where it should be from one moment to the next.That is the potential of Immersive sound! It is scalable because it doesn't care how many speakers you have in your room because it is not referencing a specific speaker – just relative locations. These locations can include the space above you and around you, enclosing you in a "bubble" of sound.These days, most sound enthusiasts do not want a lot of speakers and wires in their living room. Nevertheless, they want to relive the experience of hearing their favorite artists as if she was in the room with them. These days, that cinematic experience can be achieved with one soundbar with various speakers firing in different directions.