Immersive Remix: "The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex" by Tobias S. Buckell

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Get a sneak peek of our immersive sound! A cab driver spends an ordinary day ferrying passengers around Manhattan -- until an incident involving a wealthy alien tourist imperils his livelihood. Content advisory: alien death.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.
0:10.5	Where in every episode I hand pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to.
0:16.4	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:23.0	Hey y'all, we are trying something new on this season of the podcast.
0:29.9	We are about to embark on a new experiment in delivery of the podcast to your ears.
0:37.7	Our next new episode will include that feature.
0:42.0	And today we're going to give you an idea of what that treatment is like.
0:47.6	So we've remixed another one of my favorite stories by Tobias Bucknell.
0:53.7	It's what we call a fully immersive story.
0:56.7	It's got a binaural mix.
0:59.7	You can listen to this however you usually listen to the podcast through your car speakers,
1:05.0	whatever, but if you want to get the full effect, you really should listen with headphones
1:09.8	in.
1:11.3	So you will experience the sound kind of like this.
1:17.2	The sound will feel like it's moving around you.
1:24.9	I can be in front of you.
1:27.2	I can be to the right.
1:29.5	I can be kind of behind you.
1:32.0	I could be really far away or I can be really close.
1:39.6	Pretty cool.
1:41.6	We are incredibly excited about this technology.
1:44.7	So please do let us know what you think and how you're enjoying it.
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