Can You Really Tell The Direction of Sound?

[@jonahjlee]

It was fun to have an interactive element to the video. However I felt that it was confusing/disorienting to have the camera moving so much during the video. It's already challenging to try to pinpoint where the sound comes from, so then having to visualize rotating the sound based on the reference head was overwhelming. It would have been easier to follow if the view was consistently from the rear.

[@worldsinmotion]

That's a fair point. I wanted the video to be more dynamic not thinking it would actually take away from the enjoyment. Thanks for the constructive feedback :)

[@rollthetape88]

@@worldsinmotion fix north man.

[@chlorobyte_projects]

Binaural 3D audio is underrated af. You can emulate a 5.1/7.1 audio setup for movies and older games. Steam Audio and OpenAL (latter used by Minecraft Java Edition) can directly generate 3D audio with positional data (looking at Steam Audio it's more complex than just positional data as well). Other games might have the feature built in or will need modding.

[@nekrugderzweite8298]

its sad you only had a one-hit-wonder. this channel is severly underrated

[@mr.shplorb662]

I love stereo so much, it works so well for so many things, eyes, ears, etc.

[@roemischer]

Wow, amazing video! All the things our body is capable of doing are astonishig. Thanks for this great insight into the process of hearing sound.

[@NicksAreOverrated]

beutifully animated and explained. your content is top notch

[@구준서-f1c]

I heard every front sounds as the back sound 😅

[@Tocharianne]

Are you using headphones? That would happen if you have your left and right headphones swapped.

[@nupersu6307]

​@@Tochariannethey are not swapped

[@anonymouslittleone1327]

Same. Left and right are fine though.

[@jwalster9412]

This reminds me of those games or whatever than play a door knock sound that sounds like its directed behind you, and effectively make you feel like someone is in your house.

[@dollylol2625]

you make some of the best videos man, keep it up

[@K.Parth_Singh]

Underrated asf. hats off to the quality of this content.

[@ultrameganoob6979]

Really liked this!

[@smathlax]

For those that can't hear the difference between in front/behind / above/below because their headphones are not good enough (me), try this: Put your headphones on in an unconventional way, so that one speaker is on your forehead and the other is on the back of your head. When the test plays, you will be able to tell whether it was the speaker in front or the speaker behind you that played louder. Likewise you can put one speaker under your chin and the other on top of your head, and you can tell which plays louder. In each case, I would recommend holding the speakers slightly away from your head so as to not seal the speaker shut and hear a muffled noise.

[@Aerostarm]

Very cool

[@thomasjr4202]

This video gave me ASMR tingles for the first time. I've never actually received it from ASMR. It's such a strange sensation

[@Digitalsurfer265]

This video is how I found out Raycon earbuds don’t actually split up the stereo audio, it just plays both channels in both earbuds

[@TheExileFox]

They're also overpriced

[@siddhantshelar]

This is SUCH GREAT CONTENT. Absolutely amazing!! Thank you, man!

[@gownerjones]

I freaking love this channel. I wonder why you still only have so few subs after the speed of light video.

[@grapeflavour]

I would love for you to make a video on the details of sound synthesis! Just found your channel, fantastic videos!

[@luxdalet]

Amazing video. Most of the sounds I got right, just got backwards the ones that were in front or back. The text illusion at 5:44 is definitely strong for me. Even paused, it's as if it were wobbling in motion.

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation! I am an audiophile who loves the power of sounds and music. I’m a musician, I worked in a call center and Ive always had a fascination and curiosity for sound. When I hear birds I try to guess what species they are. When I hear aircraft and helicopters I try to guess which type they are before I see them. My all time favorite sound is the binaural sound of the space x falcon heavy rocket launch! ❤

[@shloh7867]

this is crazy underrated 3.7k views in 3 months is mad

[@kumonosu.26]

You're criminally underrated

[@nuntius1]

wow. amazing video!

[@HriStorm_56]

This channel is underrated. Hope you blow up in subs.

[@c3cris2]

I was going pretty close!

[@toomuchsugarush7821]

i really love learning from your channel 🤩🤩

[@DerpyNinjaFrog]

The optical illusion works for me

[@rawallon]

This is so cool, how come only100 views?

[@shamgamer3915]

5:50 Yep works for me its a very strong effect

[@Al_L.]

Loved the vid, even though I was unable to tell where most of the sounds were lol

[@user-jl2wd1it8h]

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[@davidputt4638]

I think it's safe to say that this will only work with a decent set of headphones.

[@tarassu]

Optical illusion at reading didn't work on me until I wanted to see the illusion and started reading (from around the middle of the text) differently. Then it worked.

[@TowZatya]

I have very sensitive eyesight and hearing. I also have very weak feeling of my body etc, so clumsiness dyspraxia so walking is hard (like i everyday forget about bending joints when walking) For years I walked with closed eyes mostly operating by my hearing... I always think that everything in sun is just white. Black or white, everything is white in sun for me. Today I cant go out of home without headphones. I cant use earplugs because the sounds from body can be too loud even without them (it is normal to me to hear my heart beating, blod flow, work of digestive system, my lungs etc travelling in my body even without earplugs...)

[@tomcho8221]

I was going to complain about this not working... turns out I had mono audio turned on on my computer, turned it on ages ago cause I had bad headphones that shorted the left and right channel and it seems I forgot to ever turn it off. Thank you for that I suppose? I think I would have just left that mono audio one forever if not for this video.

[@Lambent_Omega]

For the first one, I got the directions perfect but not any of the elevations. On the second one, I got all 3 directions perfect and the first 2 elevations correct as well. I have okayish surround sound speakers :)

[@thatprogramer]

5:49 The effect works best for me when the brightness is lower which i can do by tilting my laptop

[@nupersu6307]

Always got it wrong

[@VeilStar]

Apparently I can't tell what height a sound is coming from. I get the horizontal direction spot on, but the vertical direction I seem to have almost no conception of. Guessing the vertical direction when it comes from above my ear height seems worse than below it. I wonder if there's a statistical difference in this depending on how far above or below the average height a person is. 5:40 Works really well for me.

[@HankHillBentOver]

My air pods kinda gunked but sounds coming from below definitely were less effective in the test. Left, right, and up were completely fine, but those lower sounds failed me Which is weird because If a sound is below me usually I look down

[@GreatMossWater]

How'd you make your voice sound 3D?

[@worldsinmotion]

You can find a few binaural plugins online. Check out dearVR MICRO. It's free and works pretty well. You also need a software that can load VSTs tho.

[@rawallon]

The text illusion only worked on me when I stoped reading the text, but then even reading it kept happening, super odd!

[@CroneKorkN]

Doesnt work for me at all :O

[@klazzera]

Can I really tell the direction of the sound? Bro I wallbang the enemies in CS2 by hearing their exact location through my 2.0 stereo basic apple earpods.

[@sutematsu]

I actually did worse on the second round??? Not sure what that's about...

[@olliekim1730]

why tf would you make the camera spin around too

[@PopTart-k8g]

I literally hear no difference between any of the sounds, nor do I hear a difference between any sounds coming from different directions. This video is fake!

[@Cr7issogoodSui]

Do you wear headphones that support 3d sound or speakers with 3d sound if no then you cant hear 3d sound

[@PopTart-k8g]

@@Cr7issogoodSui Oh, I literally wasn't wearing any headphones. Also, even in the real world, I still don't hear "3D sound". This is still BS.

[@Cr7issogoodSui]

@@PopTart-k8g bruh just try wearing headphones also if you can hear sound from behind you and form the sides and from in front of you then thats 3d sound its just that speakers can only put sound from the direction they are facing and if you want 3d sound speakers you need alot of speakers

[@PopTart-k8g]

@@Cr7issogoodSui I can't hear 3d sound anyway!

[@EricssonB]

Look I’m not about to say you should stop everything else you have going on in your life to make rad-ass content full time, but maybe you should stop everything else you have going on in your life to make rad-ass content full time, at least sometimes.

[@NotAFoe]

Seems like youtube didnt recommend this video. Huh

[@8104]

Having recently lost hearing in my left ear, I failed all the tests 🥲