ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThis is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audiowww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis is the “world’s first” phone call made using spatial audiowww.theverge.comooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agooh look, a feature literally no one asked for or needs.
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago90% of the features in your daily life started as something no one asked for or needed. I remember people saying this about touch screens.
minus-squareCoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIn some applications, people still say that about touch screens and they are not wrong. Spatial Audio can be cool. In this application? I’m unconvinced.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoWas anyone asking for the telegraph before it was invented? Or the telephone? Or the Internet? Or smartphones? Or social media?
minus-squareakilou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThose are not features, those are whole ass inventions
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI don’t care about Spatial Audio for phone calls, but for songs and podcasts it’s AMAZING. It’s a gimmick, sure, but it’s really fucking neat.
oh look, a feature literally no one asked for or needs.
90% of the features in your daily life started as something no one asked for or needed. I remember people saying this about touch screens.
In some applications, people still say that about touch screens and they are not wrong.
Spatial Audio can be cool. In this application? I’m unconvinced.
90%?
[Citation needed]
Was anyone asking for the telegraph before it was invented? Or the telephone? Or the Internet? Or smartphones? Or social media?
Those are not features, those are whole ass inventions
I don’t care about Spatial Audio for phone calls, but for songs and podcasts it’s AMAZING. It’s a gimmick, sure, but it’s really fucking neat.