Verizon has its own version of spatial audio and it’s already pushing it on phones
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Reported today in The Verge.
Verizon has its own version of spatial audio and it's already pushing it on phones
You know spatial audio is having quite a moment when wireless carriers decide to create their own implementations of it. Verizon has announced a new sound feature it's calling "Verizon Adaptive Sound," and the company claims it "produces a brilliant spatial surround experience regardless of what headphone, soundbar, or earbud brand you use or what application you're watching or listening to."
The audio trick, which Verizon says has been in the works since 2019, is coming to Motorola phones first, including the new Motorola One 5G UW Ace that goes on sale July 8th. The Motorola Edge Plus also just received a firmware update that seems to add this feature, as noted by Droid Life.
Verizon Adaptive Sound is integrated right into the settings menu on Android devices in the sound section. From there, you can adjust sliders for treble, bass, voice enhancement, and spatial surround sound. For those who'd prefer to ignore VAS completely and hear everything as normal, it can toggled on or off in settings.
"While some technology solutions have attempted to provide premium sound experiences to some specific (usually expensive) devices and to a limited subset of content, most devices and content experiences have been relegated to a disjointed, sub-optimal, and lowest-common-denominator-like experience," a Verizon spokesperson said by email, in an obvious reference to Apple, Sony, and Amazon. "We wanted to change that." Some devices that offer 360-degree audio do indeed come at a premium.
Verizon Adaptive Sound is based around "an innovative software and cloud-based solution," a spokesperson said. That's on the vague side, so I've asked the carrier for more specifics on