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Dear Colleagues,
You might (or might not) have used some of our Spatial Audio rendering tools before. This is a brief update on two of them.
The 3D Tune-In Toolkit (a binaural spatialisation tool with hearing loss and hearing aid emulators, freely available as C++ code, as well as standalone app, VST plugin and Unity asset) has changed license, and is now under LGPL. This means that you can actually use the open-source code and incorporate it in compiled software you’ll then commercialise and sell, without needing a specific license from us or pay royalties. If you though modify it, then it needs to be released open-source with the same LGPL license. More information about the 3DTI Toolkit can be found at the end of this email.
It’s though important to underline that the 3DTI Toolkit has been superseded by the Binaural Rendering Toolbox - BRT (https://github.com/GrupoDiana/BRTLibrary/), which incorporates several more functions, tools and versions (as well as the actual 3DTI Toolkit, which is the actual binaural renderer). The BRT is GPLv3, so it can be used for free as long as whatever you release incorporating it is as well released with a GPLv3 license. If you are interested to know more about the BRT, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to share some demonstration and training material.
Of course please share with colleagues and students!
Best
Arcadio Reyes Lecuona (Universidad de Malaga) and Lorenzo Picinali (Imperial College London)
You can find some details about the 3DTI Toolkit spatial audio implementation in this paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211899
And the code is available from the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/3DTune-In/3dti_AudioToolkit
An example of the functionalities of the Test Application can be found in this video (use headphones when listening):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osJQ0Kxv1P0
and here is a video demonstrating the hearing loss/hearing aid functions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtEL__hwmq0
The Test Application (the one you see in the videos) is available for MacOS, Windows and Linux at the following link:
https://github.com/3DTune-In/3dti_AudioToolkit/releases/latest
At the link above, you can also download the VST plugin, both for MacOS and Windows, as well as the Unity wrapper --
Lorenzo Picinali Professor in Spatial Acoustics and Immersive Audio Dyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London Dyson Building Imperial College Road South Kensington, SW7 2DB, London E: l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/l.picinali https://www.axdesign.co.uk/ |