Panaudia
Panaudia provides spatialised audio for large multi-user virtual environments. It can be used to bring together hundreds of people in virtual town squares, sports crowds, live audiences and performances. It includes a WebRTC spatial audio mixing server (Panaudia Space), a JavaScript SDK, a cloud system for managing Panaudia Spaces, and a macOS client for streaming uncompressed audio in and out of Panaudia Cloud Spaces. Under the hood, Panaudia combines a WebRTC audio server with an ambisonic mixer and a binaural rendering engine, delivering spatialised audio over standard web protocols without requiring complex client-side installs. It's offered in two forms: the managed Panaudia Cloud service, which supports up to 500 users per Space, and the self-hostable Panaudia Space server, which supports fewer simultaneous users but can render higher-order Ambisonics, with a free licence available for certain non-commercial uses. The macOS client, also known as Panaudia Link, lets users stream multi-channel, object-based audio into a Space for live performances, and raw ambisonic audio back out, useful for integrating physical performance venues and ambisonic auditoria into a virtual audience.
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Panaudia is a UK-based company that began by building spatial audio support for web browsers around the WebRTC protocol, releasing a JavaScript SDK to make that integration straightforward, with the intention of later adding SDKs for platforms such as Unity, iOS and Android. The service ran through a closed beta phase before its Cloud and Space products became more widely available, and the company added its macOS Panaudia Link client to support multi-channel, uncompressed inputs and raw ambisonic outputs, extending Panaudia's reach from purely browser-based virtual spaces into physical performance venues and ambisonic auditoria as well.
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