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Technical insights, development stories, and updates about the world's first interactive spatial audio format.

SHAC Open Source: Building Interactive Spatial Audio Through Human-AI Collaboration

A technical deep dive into the first interactive spatial audio format with full 6DOF navigation, the architectural decisions that enabled 8.6x real-time performance, and what it means to build PhD-level technology with zero coding experience. Covers spherical harmonics, ambisonic encoding, the patent rejection, and why the technology is now fully open source.

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The SHAC Story: How a Bartender Built Revolutionary Spatial Audio Technology

From panic pitch to patent rejection to open source release—the complete story of building technology that shouldn't exist yet. How a bartender with zero coding experience partnered with AI to create the world's first interactive spatial audio format over 150 development sessions spanning eight months. The collaboration model that changes what's possible.

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