Microsoft Project Acoustics

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RELEASE UPDATE (November 17, 2022):

We're happy to announce that a new version of Project Acoustics is available! It includes many bug fixes and new features. The documentation has been updated at http://aka.ms/acoustics with information about new features and beta features. Here's a few highlights:

Version 2022.1 - November 2022

• Full Unreal Marketplace and Download Center release
• BREAKING CHANGES - Triton encoder updated to 4.0.0 from 3.02.01, removed Distance Warp design parameter
• General
  • Migrate to VS2022
  • Year-based version scheme
• HRTF PROCESSING
  • Shared results from FLEX listening test in Journal of the Acoustic Engineering Society
• TRITON
  • New Voxel-free interpolator. Voxels only kept around for debug visuals. New interpolation API provides various modes to handle queries near geometry appropriately
  • Visualizer updated to support parameter field interpolation logic
  • Load multiple ACE files simultaneously at runtime
  • Moved API inputs and mesh parsing to double precision to support large worlds
• UNREAL
  • Spatial reverb support in Unreal Audio plugin
  • New FLEX-based spatializer plugin
  • Expose Project Acoustics parameters to MetaSounds
  • UX for setting new interpolation modes
  • Support for UE5.1
  • Support for Android
  • Fix for portalling support with UE built-in panning
  • Fix for Python installation (support latest PythonNet)
  • Fix for custom IRs saving properly
• WWISE
  • Spatial reverb plugin
  • Support Wwise 2022.1

Downloads

• Unity plug-in Download
• Unreal+Wwise plug-in Download
• Unreal Engine 5/5.1 plug-in on the Marketplace

Resources

• Microsoft Project Acoustics UE5 Marketplace Plugin | Inside Unreal
• Mixed Reality Dev Days 2020 Session on Project Acoustics with HoloLens 2
• The GDC 2019 Session on Project Acoustics
• Technical overview
• Making Waves with Triton

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