Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using a new technology called “immersive audio and video services” (IVAS).
- The new technology improves the quality of a call with three-dimensional sound, making interactions more lifelike.
- Current smartphone calls are monophonic which compresses audio elements together and sound flatter and less detailed, but the new technology will bring 3D audio where a caller will hear everything as if they were there with the other person.
- IVAS allows consumers to hear sound spatially in real-time, instead of the monophonic voice experience used in smartphones and PCs today
- Nokia made the call using a regular smartphone over a public 5G network.
- Apart from person to person immersive calls, this can be used in conference calls where voices of participants can be separated based on their spatial locations.
