[adanto6840]

Somewhat tangential, but here's a cool somewhat open-source project related to Dolby Atmos:

https://cavern.sbence.hu/cavern/

https://github.com/VoidXH/Cavern

The visualizer, which is what I was _most_ interested in (along with software decoding) is written in C# and the rendering is done in Unity -- both things I valued & thought were cool. In theory, you could build a DIY multi-channel "receiver" with this type of software if given enough audio outputs (and/or put something like Dante to use).

I explored it a bit further but it's relatively cost prohibitive, especially if you want to do something like accept HDMI input, it gets messy. AFAICT, at least when I went down this research path a few months back, even finding & getting dev kits/boards with HDMI input (of semi-recent generation) was non-trivial & pretty pricey.

[baxuz]

I'm having trouble figuring out what cavern is exactly. Does it somehow relate to Dolby Access? https://www.microsoft.com/p/dolby-access/9N0866FS04W8

That is, is it an audio renderer that does player side mixing into N channels? Dolby Access does it for headphones and for up to 7.1 surround systems

I'm new to this whole audio format thing and I'm just trying to figure out how things work, as all of the Dolby stuff is very "magic behind a licence fee"

[joshspankit]

I wonder if this could be adapted to spatially-tracked headphones, or even wasd+mouse