With 3D images astounding half the population and leaving the other half feeling distinctly seasick, it was only a matter of time before another of our senses got the same treatment. Sure enough, 3D sound reproduction is finally with us; but while you might expect Professor Edgar Choueiri, its inventor, to be an audio engineer of some sort, he in fact spends most of his time as professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Let the ‘3D sound? It’s not rocket science’ gags commence.
Born in Lebanon and schooled in France, Choueiri now works on spacecraft propulsion in the US, funded by Nasa. But in 2003 a lifelong passion for music led him to wander into a conference of the Audio Engineering Society, where he heard people discussing 3D audio, and why no one had managed to perfect it yet. To Choueiri, this sounded like a challenge.
So he went and did what any good professor would do — read ‘what I think is every paper on the problem’.
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