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Ambisonics is a method to record and reproduce sound fields with the use of encoders and decoder for 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional sphere or hemisphere auditoral space. It is often used with the term domain and aimed used and has been mostly invented by Michael A. Gerzon and Peter Fellgett in the 1970s. and is used especially for AVEs

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Auditory Virtual Environment
(acronym AVE) Auditory Virtual Environments focus on sound. The main goal was a highly plausible, even natural reproduction of virtual acoustic rooms, but alsi used now for artificial rooms, beyond natural acoustics. The listener should have a spatial impression of the virtual room and perceive his own movement inside the environment and also the movements of the sound sources. (based on the Definioon of Blauert "Communication Acoustics" S.277ff, 2005 Springer)
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