Acoustics of the one person space: headphone listening, detachable ambience, and the binaural prehistory of VR

This article traces forgotten debates over the cultural acceptability of headphone listening in order to present an audio-centric history of private virtual space. I focus on how cultural attitudes towards headphone use transformed in tandem with developments in 3D binaural audio, new practices of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roquet, Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Format: Article
Published: Informa UK Limited 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130242