APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE IN CREATING AUDIO SCENE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC H04R5/00 G06F17/00 A63F13/12 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method creating an audio scene for an avatar in a virtual environment comprises the following steps: creating a link structure in a virtual environment between a plurality of avatars; reproducing an audio scene for each avatar based on its connection with other avatars connected by the links; wherein the created link structure is configured to determine the angle for reproducing the audio scene and/or the attenuation coefficient for applying to audio streams on input links. The angle for reproducing the audio scene corresponds to angles of links between said each avatar and other avatars connected by links; the link structure includes a minimum spanning tree. Loops are introduced into the minimum spanning tree such that the minimum length of the loops is shorter than a predetermined value so as to prevent echo in the reproduced audio scenes.

EFFECT: solving a task such as creating voices which really seem to originate from avatars in a virtual environment.

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