Sound As A Tool For Making Your VR Experience More Immersive

My talk on Sound As A Tool For Making Your VR Experience More Immersive at Lagos AR/VR Meetup

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1. Sound As A Tool For Making Your VR Experience More Immersive Jehoshaphat I. Abu
2. Outline Sound As A Tool For Creating Immersion In VR 01 | About Me 02 | What Is Sound? 03 | How Is Sound Useful In VR 04 | How Do We Use Sound In VR? 05 | General Guidance For Using Sound In VR 06 | Audio Effects, Audio Mixer & Audio Format In Unity 07 | Additional Resources Jehoshaphat I. Abu
3. About Me Jehoshaphat I. Abu
4. About Me I’m Jehoshaphat I. Abu a polymath and an advocate of STEAM education. I'm studied Computer Science (also Music) with Specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I'm also a multi-disciplinary artist, designing sounds and composing music for Film, Games & TV, interactive installation and performances. @jehoshaphatia http://www.jehoshaphatia.com
5. Most Powerful thing in all Form of media Jehoshaphat I. Abu Film TV Games Music e.t.c
6. What Is Sound? Jehoshaphat I. Abu
7. Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear. Jehoshaphat I. Abu
8. Elements Of Sound Perception Jehoshaphat I. Abu Pitch – Low Or High Duration – Long Or Short Loudness – Loud Or Soft Timbre – Distinct Sound. Qlty Noise – Unwanted Sound Spatial Location
9. Pitch – Low Or High Jehoshaphat I. Abu Is the frequency of a sound as perceived by human ear
10. Pitch – Low Or High Jehoshaphat I. Abu https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=wYHOAdlH&id=CF86509D7CDE9D F28ACC2A4870BEA44451141DF3&thid=OIP.wYHOAdlHqMn4gvSl0eNomwEsCI&q=sound+spect rum&simid=608052098345076933&selectedIndex=52&ajaxhist=0
11. Timbre – Quality Jehoshaphat I. Abu
12. Spatial Location Jehoshaphat I. Abu is a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance.
13. Spatial Location Jehoshaphat I. Abu
14. Think about sound and how You want to use it in enhancing Your VR experience right from day One, as you think about other assets In your pipeline Jehoshaphat I. Abu NOTE
15. How Is Sound Useful In VR? Jehoshaphat I. Abu
16. Use sound to change how users perceive the size of an object Jehoshaphat I. Abu
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18. Use sound too create the Illusion of place Jehoshaphat I. Abu
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20. Use Sound to invoke feelings in your user Jehoshaphat I. Abu
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22. Bad sound can make a very great VR experience terrible. Likewise, a really good sound can make a bad experience great. Jehoshaphat I. Abu NOTE
23. How Do We Use Sound In VR? Jehoshaphat I. Abu
24. Jehoshaphat I. Abu Sound Effects (Button Press) Ambient Sound( Environment) Speech (Character Personality) Music (Part and !Part of )
25. General Guidance For Using Sound In VR Jehoshaphat I. Abu
26. Jehoshaphat I. Abu Sound effects should be short and uncompressed(Faster to Process) Ambient should be prepared as loops(Crossfade before importing) Speech should be recorded with high quality and should not be compressed
27. Audio FX, Audio Mixer & Audio Format Jehoshaphat I. Abu
28. Audio Effects Jehoshaphat I. Abu Pitch Shift Reverb Equalization Echo Delay Phasing & Flanging Chorus
29. Audio Mixer Jehoshaphat I. Abu Use mixer to create mix for your sounds Use mixer for sound grouping
30. Audio Format Jehoshaphat I. Abu AIFF and WAV (Uncompressed) Try your best not to use compressed sound in your VR experiences. They are baaaaaaaaaaaaad MP3 and ORG (Compressed)
31. Additional Resources Jehoshaphat I. Abu
32. Jehoshaphat I. Abu 1. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Au dio.html Reverb 2. https://www.gameaudio101.com/ 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound
33. Questions? Jehoshaphat I. Abu
34. THANK YOU Jehoshaphat I. Abu