1st Edition

Virtual Reality Audio A Guide to Immersive Sound in Virtual Experiences

By Anıl Çamcı, Jason Corey Copyright 2026
230 Pages 45 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

230 Pages 45 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

230 Pages 45 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

Virtual Reality Audio: A Guide to Immersive Sound in Virtual Experiences takes you inside the world of immersive sound in VR, revealing how it transforms music, film sound, and game audio through practical examples and rich aesthetic, technical, and historical insights. Readers will discover the perceptual foundations of immersive sound and its development into an inextricable part of... Read more

1. Introduction: A New Frontier for Audio Creativity  2. History of Immersive Audio: A Survey of Milestones and Techniques  3. Acoustics and Auditory Perception: Fundamentals of Sound as an Immersive Phenomenon  4. Spatial Audio: Computational Implementation of Immersive Sound  5. Sound in VR Film: Crafting Audio for Fixed-Media VR  6. Sound in VR Games: Crafting Audio for Interactive VR  7. Moving Forward: Guidance for VR Audio Practitioners

Biography

Anıl Çamcı is a professor in the Department of Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Worldmaking Lab. His work has received numerous awards internationally and has been featured in leading conferences and journals on immersive audio, extended reality, and human-computer interaction.

Jason Corey is a professor in the Department of Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan, where he teaches technical ear training and sound recording. He wrote the book Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training and is active as a recording engineer.