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AGAMI - Everywhere immersive sound

AGAMI - Everywhere immersive sound

AGAMI - Everywhere immersive sound

AGAMI - Everywhere immersive sound

AGAMI - Everywhere immersive sound

Cloud platform and open ear headphones for immersive sound experiences

Cloud platform and open ear headphones for immersive sound experiences

Cloud platform and open ear headphones for immersive sound experiences

Cloud platform and open ear headphones for immersive sound experiences

Mezzo Forte
Mezzo Forte
Mezzo Forte
Mezzo Forte
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Paris, France
$19,138 USD $19,138 USD by 94 backers
$14,896 USD by 56 backers on Sep 15, 2023
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Mezzo Forte is a creative tech studio of sound designers, engineers, developers and researchers with decades of experience in live electronics and spatial audio.

Agami - Pro audio for immersive experiences

Since 2019, Mezzo Forte creative R&D is focused on high-quality immersive experiences for museums, touristic or natural places, performance venues, indoor or outdoor. 



Agami is the first pro audio platform for immersive experiences with bone conduction technology, based on 3 years of creative R&D by Mezzo Forte team. Sounds are associated to a place of interest, by designing the ecological blend between the natural sound environment and virtual sound sources.

Sounds are uploaded to agami by content creators. They are organized in experiences by cultural, touristic, and performance venues:

Public experience is free, both for access and upload. It's a global collaborative soundwork, introducing a new extended reality paradigm that can be accessed everywhere, by everyone. A new way to listen to the world around us.

Pro experiences are created by venues: their quality is optimized by advanced audio processing algorithms, and is certified by Mezzo Forte. Venues propose them to users for free or purchase.
Pro experiences can be accessed even without internet connection: in this case, venues previously download them as an app on mobile devices.

Plans on agami 

FREE - for ever, really

  • free access to the public experience
  • access to pro experiences (purchase)
  • 1 upload to the public experience

Exclusive perk for early bird users:

    • take advantage of an incredible discount on Mezzo Forte open ear headphones, guaranteeing the best experience with agami. 
    • upload 10 sounds to the public experience and get feedback from the Mezzo Forte team to optimize sound quality
       

    CREATOR - paid subscription

    • unlimited upload to the public experience
    • upload soundworks to the creator showcase with:

      - boosted visibility with buyers
      optimized quality with Mezzo Forte sound processing algorithms
      content validation and feedback from the Mezzo Forte team

    Exclusive perk for early bird creators:

      • take advantage of an incredible discount on Mezzo Forte open ear headphones, guaranteeing the best experience with agami. 
      • 1-year subscription included
         

      VENUE - paid subscription

      • access to public experience and creator showcases
      • private sounds library for upload and cherry picking from creator showcases
      • create pro experiences from sounds library or by commissioning selected creators to design new contents
      • get Mezzo Forte support on narrative strategy and sound design

      Exclusive perk for early bird venues:

      • take advantage of an incredible discount on Mezzo Forte open ear headphones, guaranteeing the best experience with agami: pack of 10 numbered headphones
      • life-time subscription included

      Get close to your place of interest

      Users can access the immersive experiences on agami simply by getting close to a place of interest, thanks to the automatic localization feature based on GPS and ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor positioning.

      GPS-based outdoor localization is included in agami. Our UWB indoor positioning system is a prototype and is not available in agami, yet: if your venue is interested in this system please contact the team for an estimate.

      Mezzo Forte open ear headphones

      Take advantage of an incredible discount on Mezzo Forte open ear headphones, guaranteeing the best experience with agami.

      Immersive experiences with bone conduction headphones, really?!

      Sure. Research made by our team at IRCAM (Paris, FR) shows that bone conduction is the most efficient technology to create realistic 3D audio scenes and spatial audio effects. For instance, bone conduction headphones achieve high spatial representation accuracy of audio with stationary and moving sounds, higher than standard headphones.

      Unprecedented sound quality

      Bone conduction headphones are known to suffer from poor quality for music listening, especially in the bass-frequency range. Mezzo Forte developed advanced sound processing and editing techniques, based on research in machine learning, sound perception and cognitive neuroscience, to create realistic 3D audio scenes whose features are optimized for bone conduction:

      • frequency adjustment - bass-range control and high-range enhancement help obtaining a realistic sound image for a large amount of sound sources
      • voice intelligibility enhancement allows crystal clear speech experience - you won't figure out if the voice is real or virtual
      • spectral density control is fundamental when selecting your sources - the quality of sounds with high spectral density, such as an orchestra, is necessarily degraded when projected by bone conduction headphones

      Such know-how allows creators and composers to design augmented performances combining acoustical sources, loudspeakers and bone conduction technology. A new extended reality paradigm.

      Inclusive and immersive

      Thanks to our technology, for the first time people suffering from hearing or visual impairments can access immersive sound experiences in museums and performance venues. 
      For the visually impaired, bone conduction is suitable for obstacle detection and signage because it provides audio signals without limiting the natural auditory capabilities that are essential for orientation.
      For the hearing impaired with conductive disturbances in the outer and middle ear, bone conduction impressively improves the listening experience, since the vibrations produced by the transducers are transmitted directly to the inner ear.

      Your contribution to everywhere immersive sound

      Your contribution to this crowdfunding is essential for:

      • Building the agami Public experience, a global collaborative soundwork introducing a new extended reality paradigm. Create immersive experiences with your own sounds, that can be accessed everywhere, by everyone. A new way to listen to the world around us.

      • Finalizing the development of agami beta version - expected launch October 2023 
      • Funding of the first massive production of Mezzo Forte open ear headphones - expected delivery October 2023 

      Get the exclusive perks for venues and creators, with special offers for agami subscriptions and Mezzo Forte open ear headphones.

      The team

      Mezzo Forte's roots literally grew underground, in the creative research of three international experts at IRCAM in Paris (-4 floor at Pompidou Center!), one of the world's most fervent production and research centers in sound technology. 

      Today Mezzo Forte is a creative-tech studio of eleven people with
      diverse backgrounds, powered by a network of international professionals. A
      harmonious composition: all different, and all determined to shape an ecological concept of augmented reality, by designing ever-changing integrated sound experiences.
      All different, but not very different from you: driven by love of discovery and curiosity.

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      October 2023
      19 out of 100 of claimed
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      December 2023
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