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Spatial audio

If you have AirPods Pro and iOS 14 you can get spatial audio, which changes what you hear based on the position of your head. It was rolled out to the AirPods Pro firmware in late September and early reviews were effusive: John Gruber of Daring Fireball wrote that the effect was “very cool, very fun” and “very natural, not gimmicky or distracting. The spatiality just feels right.”

Spatiality? Let’s discover what spatial audio is all about.

What is spatial audio?

Spatial audio is a directional audio effect. In real life, if we move our head or our whole self then what we hear changes – so, for example, if we turn our head away from something

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