AirPods Pro Spatial Audio = MIND BLOWN

ah are you blind why are you walking like that did you try this oh my god that was the movie i tried the demo i it sounds stupid it sounds so stupid it feels like i'm i don't know how this software so a new feature recently launched on these guys right here the airpods pro i knew i had to test it out because i recall watching the keynote next let's talk about airpods in which they announced this particular feature facial audio i mean it felt like something interesting it looked like something interesting i couldn't feel it yet i was just watching the keynote you know the experience of being in a movie theater one where the sound not only comes from in front of you but also from the left the right behind and even from above you the way this basically works is that with the latest software update so you have ios 14 and then you have this is the important part the latest software on your airpods pro as well it will create a a spatial awareness kind of surround sound experience which is relative to your head and the device that you're holding we can play sounds virtually anywhere in space now not all devices are supported you need a relatively recent ios device in order to take advantage of this as well and then it's going to take some serious magic to get your airpods pro to update because there's no way to force a firmware update to these things you kind of have to just leave them nearby and leave them opened up and it took in our case like an hour i don't know it's it's apple magic going on siri had to be enabled there's a little pro tip so for some reason enabling siri helped to update the airpods pro what you're looking for is version 38283 at least at the time of filming this video okay so after you've done that this will enable the spatial audio toggle and the support for spatial audio in a number of different apps in which you would typically have surround sound content dolby content 5.1 or 7.1 content so there's also a little demo just to give me a taste of what it's going to be like so i'm going to pop open oh by the way this doesn't work on regular airpods not really sure why we had them here just to just to rub it in that if you have regular airpods don't expect to utilize this feature i'll just go ahead and put them right in my ear right now [Music] by default i mean this is stuff that you've seen before in these settings you have noise cancellation and you have transparency transparency is going to allow the microphones on these devices to let sound pass through so i'll click that for a moment just as a quick reminder this lets you have a conversation unless you hear your surroundings i've loved this feature on headphones dating back a number of years now actually and i'm glad that it exists now in an apple airpods product i think for the kind of optimal spatial audio experience i'm going to go back to noise cancellation mode anyway we scrolled down here and now you've unlocked this spatial audio setting so i'm going to go ahead and click the c and hear how it works here immersive three-dimensional audio from supported videos that follows the movement of your phone obviously you have various sensors capable of knowing where the phone is in relationship to your head that's that kind of synergy as they say in the well that's the corporate lingo but i think ecosystem is the more frequent terminology in the tech realm anyway see and hear how it works all right well first up you got stereo audio this is your typical earbud functionality so now i'm going to click the spatial audio button oh all right now what happens if i'm oh yeah you're right the shaker is what you want to pay attention to if you're testing this yourself there's like um it stays here the shaker is your phone now it's here but on this ear you know what i'm saying it's very complicated what if i turn all the way around yeah it's behind me oh that is a bit creepy oh that's weird that is a different level of immersion you can imagine something scary with the creeping up and the sound effect behind all right don't mind me i'm just going to get immersive over here not supported yeah i got movies can i hit up like batman or something oh yeah i see dolby vision should i try it do it oh yeah it's working whoa that's so weird hold up oh all right all right all right all right all right right right all right all right it is so it's cool it feels uh quite real for a voice on a screen to not move i could just be like having talking to somebody responding to someone and it stays over here it is a very it's cool it's a cool headphone experience you know what it feels it just feels like sitting in a movie theater with the sound is mostly coming from the front and if you were to turn your head obviously it would change your brain's perception of the source of the sound see headphones if i got up and what happens if i get up and walk around ah are you blind i it sounds stupid it sounds so stupid i'm saying it feels like i'm in a movie theater it's like sure lou get out of my face but it does it feels like i'm i don't know how the software is so sophisticated how have they replicated that experience so exactly in my tiny little ear canals what now i'm on an iphone so i don't know this might be a little much for me if i was just on the public transport and i'm just zoned in over here but if i was chilling with the ipad or on a laptop my goodness what amazing what they can pull out of these tiny little earbuds and some some sophisticated software techniques it is holy i've tried surround sound virtualization in the past on full-scale headphones and to be fair i mean these are not the most advanced headphones i've ever tried but the combination the software relationship between the device the content and the earbuds has created a very uh realistic movie theater like or sit or never mind a movie theater but like a couch and a big tv and if you had a big stereo setup a big surround setup it really feels like that but i just have these tiny earbuds it also feels like the sound is out here somewhere like there's texture to it it's very strange it doesn't feel like it's in my buds it feels like it's coming from the from the screen wherever the screen is positioned it feels like the sound is halfway between me and the screen and at no point do you feel as though it's coming from your earbuds it feels like it feels like your earbuds are ear plugs your brain is fully fooled it's incredible well done i don't know as far as a portable movie watching experience i think some people a lot of people tend to underestimate the sound component and this just adds a whole different level to the mobile movie watching experience i don't even really need to try an ipad i might as well since i have it here so the fast switching thing is another enhancement that's been made on the most recent software on the uh airpods pro and ios 14 so i'm gonna just hit play over on the phone and see if it immediately switches because i was just on the ipad yes phone loud awesome and now i'm on the ipad sound coming through so you don't even have to think about it i mean obviously you have to pair it at some point or or you have to be logged into icloud so it recognizes the devices but it's no it's instant [Music] whatever i love it i mean like i said i think i think this is a huge development i think they totally underplayed it which is not like apple at all to be honest you would think they will make a huge deal of this but they just rolled it out as an extra feature they could have uh released a whole different set of earbuds based around this feature and maybe they will maybe they'll do a studio set something like this that has that feature built in but with a much bigger driver unit and an over-ear style headphone if apple were to do that you would assume that this experience would get amplified to an even greater level but as it stands right now it's in their airpods pro earbuds oh by the way also check out the later case on airpods pro you might want to pick one of those up protects them plus you get the carbon fiber look so that just makes me all that much more excited for when apple does do a real true over ear headphone and puts this software and in this program inside of it i mean that could be that could be a very immersive experience i brought this headphone over actually i'm kind of amazed i haven't looked at it yet because the previous version the xm3 was my go-to over-ear style headphone i still prefer an over-ear to an earbud in most circumstances uh now this has something in it called 360 reality audio which is going to kind of mimic the experience i just had but without the same level of sophistication however it's not tapping into the various sensors on the phone itself it doesn't have that that type of tie-in and therefore if i just turn my head away from the source it's not going to really change the experience which is such a key part of that airpods pro spatial experience this is not a cheap headphone this is well within the premium segment it competes with the likes of the various bose products and the microsoft headphones that are out there and i don't know maybe even some beats products and definitely whenever apple decides to do their own over ears of course there is an application to go with it that lets you control all the various configurations for the sound signature which you can modify and the noise canceling and the rest of it everything fits into this handy carrying case it also has this mesh pocket on the outside it's a nice little touch with the sony zipper here which has like a kind of plating on it it looks bronze or rose gold so we crack that open and we have our headphones once again these are the blacked out version but the same color that you sort of saw on the zipper is carried through on the sony logo and a couple of the headphone elements these things i can wear these things for hours on end without ear fatigue it is a lightweight headphone for what it is and also you have these super comfortable cushions in there you have a right and left designation one of the rumors with the upcoming apple studio headphones is that you'll be able to put them on either way and based on once again the involvement of the phone it will be able to tell which ear should be fed the left channel signal and which ears should be fed the right channel signal we have some buttons on the outside there's a custom configurable button over here your power switch with an led light up above that here is the mini jack connector if you do choose to use this in a wired fashion there is a usb type c connector over there and also an led right beside it also in the package the tiniest little type c to usb a cable a little pocket for your airline adapter and your mini jack cable as well it all fits in very nicely and then the control scheme this is a touch panel on the side later okay next oh playing 360 on your headphones enables audio immersion yeah so this is cool this this sort of spreads out the sound so it's a much bigger stage and it feels as though you are more like at a live venue i suppose as opposed to being enclosed in a headset oh that's very upsetting that's very upsetting i mean it's very upsetting why because software is so powerful man holy once you've had the experience once you had the spatial audio experience now i know i'm a b testing i literally i just did it and it's important to note these are probably my favorite headphones and certainly in most circumstances if i'm just listening to music or something i'm gonna rather have these on than these but just a b testing the avengers end game audio experience that spatial thing is for real i mean it's not these don't they don't sound bad i need explosion or something they sound good the the problem is they sound like headphones these things trick your brain completely let me just hold up yeah that's just stereo the 360 component is only supported in certain music applications and even there it's not as sophisticated because it's just surrounding you it's doing some guesswork whereas this is using real real math yeah it's a different it's a different experience i mean this is still a full-fledged headphone so everything has a little more maybe richness or or bass to it but this feels like a movie theater it feels like i'm sitting in a movie theater and it's addictive if you have an iphone if you have an ipad if you're if you're fully in the thing and you don't have airpods pro this is as soon you get you can get these for christmas i guess and the first thing you need to do is try out this spatial audio thing because it really is much different from the other headphone experiences that i have this is not for music it's specifically for watching content that supports it but uh it takes even a champion status headphone like this and makes me want to put it down when i boot up the movie that supports the spatial audio that's it's a pretty significant thing so anyways i'm still going to use these on the day-to-day but man when you pop a movie on all of a sudden what now now i'm reaching for uh an ipad is that what's going on here sheesh spatial audio apple did something cool

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Published: Thu Oct 08 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/nickjohnson0320]

Apple TV+ has some great shows to try this out on

[u/Anu8ius]

So far I can definitly say that some movies from Disney+ have it. Spotify seems to have it enabled on some podcasts, but it doesnt seem to „move“ there (and doesnt work with all podcasts, might also be a bug)

[u/3mbersea]

Hulu - Rick and Morty def has it