Royal College of Art graduate Alex Kane explains how his virtual reality Volta production tool allows users to create multidirectional "spatial audio" in this video interview shot by Dezeen.
Kane developed Volta as his graduation project to complete his degree in Global Innovation Design at the Royal College of Art in London.
Users wear virtual reality goggles and headphones to produce surround sound audio by moving different audio elements around manually in a 3D space.
Volta is a virtual reality audio production tool created by Alex Kane
Kane describes Volta as a "spatial audio production platform that you use in virtual reality".
The application offers users a manipulatable 3D visualisation of "spatial audio", a term referring to audio that gives listeners the impression of being in a space with individual sources of sound coming from many different precise locations. When using Volta, users can grab and move different elements of an audio track in a 3D environment in order to alter the perceived location of a particular sound source.
Volta allows users to create surround sound audio by manipulating sound sources in a virtual reality environment
"When you have your headset on, the earphones on and you have the controllers, you'll be in this very expansive environment," explains Kane in the video interview, which was shot by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate show.
"You can just reach out and grab different sound...