HEAR360 and Sonical Join Forces to Bring Spatial Audio to Sonical’s CosmOS Headphone Operating System

HEAR360 and Sonical announced a strategic partnership that delivers value to headphone manufacturers and their end users. At launch, HEAR360’s industry recognized real-time spatial audio engine will be available in CosmOS’s growing ecosystem of plugins and apps, enabling manufacturers to offer customizable experiences that can be enjoyed on any wired or wireless headphones/earbuds, supporting Bluetooth, Ultra-wideband and Wi-Fi.
 

California-based HEAR360 specializes in designing both professional and consumer audio hardware and software products, meeting increasing demand for premium audio experiences. Founded by Grammy award winning audio engineers, HEAR360’s proprietary audio solutions have powered videoconferencing and in-flight entertainment systems, livestream music platforms, mobile apps, gaming, and XR environments. Among many use cases, HEAR360 helped create the spatial audio technology for the Hed Unity wireless headphones project. The company’s latest innovation is a real time automated rendering engine that delivers Spatial Audio for instant playback of both live and on demand content from any web or mobile platform.

As professional and consumer markets are embracing spatial audio content production, the industry has faced protracted development and integration of the required technology for consumer reproduction. Sonical is determined to meet those requirements and CosmOS will meet the demand by providing access to, and streamlining integration of, audio technologies like HEAR360’s proprietary solutions.

“By choosing HEAR360, headphone manufacturers will not only be able to deliver a world-class immersive spatial audio experience, they will also have access to a full assortment of feature sets including head-tracking, dialogue enhancement and clarity, and custom headphone profiles and tuning,” says Gary Spittle, Sonical’s CEO.

Importantly, HEAR360’s spatial audio engine is designed to work seamlessly with existing content libraries, streaming audio, and OTT content delivery platforms, ensuring that all users can access unprecedented levels of immersion elevating any and all everyday listening scenarios, live or on demand.

“We are thrilled to work with Sonical to fastrack our ability to raise the bar for the next generation of premium sonic experiences, while continuing to deliver on our value proposition – fully scalable cinema grade sound quality for all users on all headsets without complicating or changing workflows,” adds Matt Marrin, CEO and Co-Founder of HEAR360.

“The addition of HEAR360 to our platform perfectly aligns with our mission to offer users the most frictionless way to tap into unique and flexible headphone listening possibilities. Simply said, we help to bring the recording studio to your ears with this leap forward in audio experiences,” Spittle adds.

The integration will be demonstrated at CES 2024 in Sonical’s private suite at the Venetian Hotel. As Sonical continues to develop its own operating system, CosmOS, specifically designed for hearables running downloadable plugins, the number of app and algorithms that are committing to being available on the Sonical platform continues to expand.

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