Abstract
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) are increasingly becoming a consumer commodity, where sound plays a central role, usually delivered through headphones. Headphones, however, do not allow direct interactions between users outside the virtual world: other solutions may be necessary. In this work, we present a different approach: a sound projector, which can deliver spatial sound at a distance by forming a beam of audible sound. Our device consists of a portable speaker and two metamaterial lenses of different focal length, arranged in a telescope. We test our device by delivering signals between 5 and 6 kHz to moving people, tracked by a camera. We benchmark its performance with measurements and a pilot study, with human participants. Finally, we connect our projector to a VR headset and show how it can be used to deliver messages in VR. In this work, we discuss the limitations and perspectives of similar metamaterial-based delivery systems.
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