Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kyle Robert Storck

Nikunj Raghuvanshi

Noel Richard Cross

Michael George Chemistruck

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Ashutosh Vidyadhar Tatake

Keith William Godin

Hakon Strande

Travis Joseph Fodor

Examples are disclosed that relate to determining acoustic properties of audio sources in virtual environments. One example provides a method comprising receiving a query on behalf of a non-player entity regarding an audio source, the query including a position of the non-player entity, and based at least on the position of the non-player entity, determining one or more acoustic properties of sound emitted by the audio source at the position of the non-player entity by accessing a position-indexed data structure comprising one or more values for one or more audio cues, each value influencing a corresponding acoustic property of sound emitted by the audio source at a corresponding position. The method further comprises providing the one or more determined acoustic properties to the application, where the application is configured to control behavior of the non-player entity based at least on the one or more determined acoustic properties.

Cue-based acoustics for non-player entity behavior

A mobile device implemented method provides audio from a virtual audio source in an augmented reality view of a scene. The method includes operations of sending scene identification data to a server storing precomputed acoustic parameters for multiple scenes, receiving precomputed acoustic parameters corresponding to the scene, aligning the view to register the audio to the augmented reality view of the scene, and rendering and playing the audio using the obtained acoustic parameters.

Augmented reality virtual audio source enhancement

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