Sony corporation has announced that 360 Reality Audio, an immersive audio experience utilizing object-based spatial audio technology will be available for the public coming this late fall 2019. Listeners in the United States, Europe and a few other locations will be able to listen to approximately 1000 songs at launch from many popular artists such as Mark Ronson and Pharrell Williams. Screen capture on mac video.
Song introduced this technology early this year at CES 2019. It generated quite a bit of buzz among industry artists and artists who was interested in exploring this new tech. Object-based spatial audio technology makes it possible for artists and music creators to produce a music experience by mapping sound sources such as vocals, chorus and instruments with positional information and placing them within a spherical space centered around the user.
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Initially, 360 Reality Audio will feature approximately 1000 songs. More music is scheduled to be added from Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The service will also feature more than 100 songs recorded from an array of concerts by performers such as CHARLI XCX and Kodaline.
The technology will be streamed through a variety of music streaming services, namely Amazon Music HD, Deezer, nugs.net, TIDAL with support for Napster coming later. Users will need a paid subscription on all these streaming services. 360 Reality audio will use an international open standard MPEG-H 3D Audio as its audio format.
Users will be to experience 360 Reality Audio through two ways:
- Headphones: Using an Android/iOS and the participating streaming service, users can have this experience with any pair of headphones from most major manufacturers.
- Speakers: Users will also be able to listen to 360 Reality Audio using their speakers if their speaker system has Sony’s unique decoder of the 360 Reality Audio music format, multiple speaker units and signal processing technology.
Moreover, Sony has partnered with platform and chipset providers, in order to make 360 Reality Audio usable in a wide range of future connected devices that have Amazon Alexa, Google Chromecast built-in, Chipsets manufactured by Media Tek and Qualcomm.
Jerry Yu, MediaTek Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Intelligent Devices Business Group, said:
For the past two decades MediaTek has delivered cutting-edge audio solutions with the latest sound processing technology. Integrating Sony’s 360 Reality Audio technology into our audio portfolio will enable device makers to bring a concert-like audio experience to consumers around the world.
Developers ask us all the time whether it’s possible to convert Android apps to KaiOS.
If it’s a web application built with JavaScript and web technologies, the answer is yes – and it’s actually pretty simple.
If it’s a native Android app built with Java, though, then porting is a bit trickier, and we recommend starting a new web application project in KaiOS.
In this post, we’ll share tips to help you get started, including how to ensure your apps run smoothly in smart feature phones.
Converting web apps to KaiOS
To migrate your web-based app to KaiOS, follow the instructions in the Getting Started section of our Developer Portal.
If you run into any trouble, contact developersupport@kaiostech.com and a KaiOS developer will get back to you shortly.
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Converting native Android apps to KaiOS
Converting a native Android app into a web app isn’t possible.
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You could try using the Google Web Toolkit to translate your Java code to JavaScript, but we can’t guarantee it will work.
Instead, we recommend starting a new web application project using the resources on our Developer Portal.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to start from scratch. You can keep the architecture of your original app and reuse assets such as icons, images, and audio files.
Things to keep in mind when converting Android apps to KaiOS
- Smart feature phones are non-touch devices. Redesigning your Android app for smart feature phones is all about transferring touchable elements to physical keys.
For tips on how to do this while still providing a good experience for users, check out Optimizing Smartphone Apps for Smart Feature Phones. - Smart feature phones have small screens.Use the devtools in your browser to see how your app performs in 320×240 screen sizes.
- Smart feature phones are low-memory devices. Keep your app light (file size under 15MB) to ensure users connecting in 2G and 3G networks, or via pay-by-the-byte plans, can download it. The average KaiOS app file size is around 2MB.
Get help from a KaiOS Certified Partner
Need a hand migrating your Android app to KaiOS?
Certified Partners are developers and studios with experience developing for KaiOS and availability to work on KaiOS outsourcing projects.
If you’d like help converting your Android app to KaiOS, contact us at developersupport@kaiostech.com and we’ll connect you with a certified partner.