I've been waiting for Auracast to become a thing for a while now. I really hope it will eventually become available at chaos/hacker events (#CCC, #EMF, etc) because these lecture halls often have a lot of ambient noise that I find hard to filter out. Being able to just put on headphones and listen to the audio directly from the microphone would really help.
Here is a video I found describing it (2nd half):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WmSM_yCyV3U
@artemist Sadly no :/
It's only supported on some Android phones. I'm on Android 16 (Fairphone 6) and it's not supported. I was really hoping it would be.
(Also, Auracast is built on top of LE Audio: the headphones pick up the signal directly instead of going via the phone. The phone just selects which channel to listen to. So it's highly unlikely it'll ever be available for older headphones).
@ayke I wonder if people have looked into Auracast (basically the modern bluetooth version of this).
Not to dismiss this tech obv, but Auracast probably has better quailty
@thibaultmol My post is about Auracast, yes ;)
(And the second half of the video too)
@ayke it seems to suffer from similar interference issues as AM radio while also not having the range ....
I wonder why they went this way instead of just going AM radio, after all it's not that much more complex to build an AM transmitter and reciever.
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