Research and Market Maturity
Early development of WFS was started in from 1988 by the Delft University. Further work was carried out in the context of the CARROUSO project, promoted by the European Union (January 2001 to June 2003). In Europe, ten institutes were included in this research. The WFS sound system IOSONO was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for digital media technology (IDMT) by the technical University of Ilmenau.
Loudspeaker arrays implementing WFS have been installed in some cinemas and theatres and in public range with good success. The first live WFS transmission took place in July 2008, recreating an organ recital at Cologne cathedral in lecture hall 104 of the Technical University of Berlin. The room contains the world’s largest speaker system with 2700 loudspeakers on 832 independent channels.
Development of home-audio application of WFS has only recently begun. In spite of the efforts, large acceptance problems remain.
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