May
25

Web Fun: Virtual Barbershop

Chris Salazar eBizz 2007-05-25

Ive come across a Virtual Barbershop, that is quite amazing.  Its sounds like you’re actually getting a haircut.

Anyways, I believe this is one step closer to the future of web 2.0.  We are getting close, and who knows maybe it’ll be virtual 2.0 soon.  Ive just been on the search for what’s next and although I know this is not the next best thing in web, its pointing us to the right direction.

Listen for yourself!

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Address: http://chris-salazar.com/blog/2007/05/25/web-fun-virtual-barbershop/
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  • http://web-strategist.com/blog Jeremiah Owyang

    check out mxplay.com they’ve an application that lets you do that to any song!

  • http://lisaamorao.wordpress.com/ lisaamorao

    Very cool…Though they’re not the same sounds I hear when I get my haircut. :-) But trippy!

    Great seeing you at Netgear today.

  • COMALite J

    Jeremiah is wrong. MXplay is NOT the same thing, nor even close, to what produced Virtual Barber Shop. MXplay is a post processor, like the SRS WOW Effect in Windows Media Player 7. It’s not even as good as the full SRS, Q-Sound, Sensaura, or other HRTF (Head-Reference Transfer Function) audio used in gaming and other synthetic audio sources.

    Virtual Barber Shop was made using an enhanced binaural recording process. This effect can NOT be done to an existing mono nor stereo nor even surround (not even DTS 7.1) audio after the fact, and is vastly superior to all such technologies.

    Binaural itself is very old: older even than stereo. But this enhancement, called Cetera, is recent, and eliminates the effect of the physical presence of the microphones that otherwise mute the 3D effect. But even ordinary binaural without Cetera is vastly superior to SRS, Q-Sound, Sensaura, Dolby Surround (5.1 or 7.1), or DTS (5.1 or 7.1), let alone SRS WOW or other mere “stereo wide” effects.

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  • John

    Very cool…Though they’re not the same sounds I hear when I get my haircut. But trippy!