One of the inventors of the MP3 format is back with a new technology that he hopes will revolutionize audio, creating superrealistic sound for theaters, theme parks and eventually even living rooms.

Karlheinz Brandenburg, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology, along with a team of co-developers, is in Los Angeles this week showing off his new "Iosono" technology to representatives of Hollywood studios and giants including Disney. Brandenburg is credited with much of the work leading to the MP3 format, also developed at Fraunhofer.

He and his team are touting their new product as true "three dimensional" audio, which can give the impression of, for example, a horse galloping through the center aisle of a movie theater, or pinpoint a noise so that it sounds exactly like a person shouting from outside theater walls. The best existing surround sound speakers can approximate this only for a small "sweet spot," perhaps a few feet wide, while the Ionsono system would create the same realistic illusion for everyone in the room.

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sweet, so cars wizzing by would sound like.



vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrROOOOOOOOMoooooooooooooommmmmm.

sounds awesome to me

that is a rele bad pun m8 lol , anyway im off to surf the 'waves' lol *terrible*

Realistic sound, imagine it for the pr0n?

hahahaha, how would surround sound benefit pr0n?

It would sound like it was ALL AROUND YOU!!

Wouldn't that be awesome!

I don't see how this could be useful for anything other than tech demos. Everything in a movie is taking place in front of you. Not behind you, beside you, or outside the room. People would be so amazed at where the sound is coming from, they won't pay any attention to what's on the screen.

This won't benefit us like the MP3.

Ahhhh, to be surrounded by other people having sex with other people.......the idea is good, but it would be better if they were having sex with YOU!

yeah but think about the porn movies that look like it is just you and a girl (or man if you swing that way) .... those would be awesome!

Not maybe in a small screen, but at the big screen it would

rofl pr0n

really tho, this would prolly be good in movies like The Day After Tomorrow and The Matrix, among others

Yeap sounds pretty sweet. Lets hope we don't have to wait a decade for it to happen.

now that I think of it.. it's application in a movie theatre is pretty limited.......