Zoom, Sennheiser Announce VR Partnership
Two big names in audio are teaming up, to move Virtual Reality (VR) production forward.
At IBC, Zoom and Sennheiser announced a new collaboration, combining to offer a complete VR production package within the framework of Sennheiser’s AMBEO for VR partnership program: With Zoom’s F8 and F4 MultiTrack Field Recorders and Sennheiser’s AMBEO VR Mic, virtual reality content creators can record high-quality 360-degree audio for video.
The Zoom F8 and F4 offer gain-linking capability, allowing creators to adjust the gain on all four capsules of the Sennheiser AMBEO VR Mic evenly and simultaneously with one knob. This makes monitoring and adjusting audio levels more accessible when recording in the field. By embedding the AMBEO VR Mic’s A-B converter in the Zoom F8, VR content creators now have a convenient, easy-to-use combo for VR productions.
To further streamline workflow with the F8 and F4, Zoom is developing new AMBEO-ready firmware with A-B decoding for properly monitoring signal from the AMBEO mic.
The firmware updates will be available in late September for F8 and in December 2017 for F4.
Audio is all around with this new VR convergence from Zoom and Sennheiser.
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