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Apple pushing hard on audio, including spatial – Source fastcompany.com

Apple has been talking a lot about audio lately, and continued doing so during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday.

The company announced in May that it would release “lossless,” or uncompressed, versions of its entire Apple Music catalog, as well as versions of thousands of the songs in “Spatial Audio,” or audio that’s mixed to sound three-dimensional, like theater audio.

Apple is so confident in the Spatial Audio experience that it’s already expanding the new feature from music into other parts of its ecosystem.

For instance, Spatial Audio will come to Apple TV this fall, the company said Monday. So if you’re watching an Apple TV movie wearing AirPods or AirPod Max Bluetooth headphones you might hear sounds or voices coming from places around, above, and behind you. The addition of Spatial Audio to movie viewing seems natural because the feature is based on Dolby Atmos cinema audio technology.

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