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OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

The OSSIC X instantly calibrates to your anatomy to provide a truly immersive 3D audio experience.

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OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

OSSIC X: Immersive 3D Audio Headphones

The OSSIC X instantly calibrates to your anatomy to provide a truly immersive 3D audio experience.

The OSSIC X instantly calibrates to your anatomy to provide a truly immersive 3D audio experience.

The OSSIC X instantly calibrates to your anatomy to provide a truly immersive 3D audio experience.

The OSSIC X instantly calibrates to your anatomy to provide a truly immersive 3D audio experience.

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Overview
At OSSIC, we're developing the future of 3D audio in headphones. Our first product, the OSSIC X, is the world's first smart headphone that uses anatomy calibration to playback incredibly immersive 3D audio tailored to the way you hear the world everyday.

THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED 3D AUDIO SMART HEADPHONE

OSSIC X is the world’s first smart 3D audio headphone that instantly calibrates to the listener, increasing the sense of auditory space, and acoustically recreating the way you hear the world everyday. By pairing advanced 3D audio algorithms with head-tracking and individual anatomy calibration, we deliver incredibly accurate 3D sound to your ears. Experience music like never before. Get more immersed in virtual reality. Bring gaming to the next level.

INSTANT CALIBRATION FOR A 10X AUDIO EXPERIENCE 

OSSIC X calibrates to the individual listener’s head and ear features, increasing overall sound quality and ensuring the most accurate sound placement, making for a listening experience that’s ten times more immersive than current technologies. 

  • Increased audio immersion 
  • Hear your movies and music like never before 
  • Increased sense of space with your audio content

 

Audio is a crucial part of the way we experience content. By implementing accurate 3D audio, any content can take the listener to new places by improving the following:

OSSIC X FOR VIRTUAL REALITY

In virtual reality, sound is key. With accurate 3D sound we can give a sense of space and direct your attention to elements outside your field of view for a more immersive experience. 

  • Drastically improved sound localization 
  • Increased sense of presence 
  • Accurately render sound in any x,y,z coordinate in space
 

OSSIC X FOR GAMING

Having accurate sound in gaming can make or break the experience, allowing you to know what’s going on in the spaces of the game that you can’t see. 

  • Immerse yourself in the game
  • Accurately position sounds for a competitive advantage 
  • Boomless mic for continued audio communication

OSSIC X FOR MOVIES
Imagine being able to watch any movie on the best speaker setup money can buy, from the comfort of your couch, bed, or anywhere. 

  • Enjoy any movie theater audio experience from wherever you are.

OSSIC X FOR MUSIC 

OSSIC changes the way you listen to music. Imagine being able to listen to any song from your collection on the best speaker setup money can buy, or hear a concert from the best seats in your favorite concert hall. 

  • Replicate the ideal listening room or speaker setup. 
  • Hear your music exactly how the artist intended.

 

See and hear what others have said about hearing 3D audio for the first time.

 

 

WE ALL HEAR THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY BASED ON OUR ANATOMY

How we hear the world is not a one-size-fits all situation. It's our physical anatomy that plays a critical role in defining how sound enters our ears. This is called our head related transfer function, or HRTF. Our individual HRTF is based on: 

  • Our position in space 
  • The size of our head 
  • The shape of our ears

TRADITIONAL HEADPHONES DON’T ACCOUNT FOR OUR ANATOMY

With traditional headphones the listeners anatomy is not taken into account. This makes for an incredibly small listening experience, where sound remains close to your head rather than around you. This leads to: 

  • A “close to your head” listening experience
  • Inaccurate ability to place sounds in space
  • Degradation in overall sound quality

 

CALIBRATION PUTS YOU BACK INTO THE LISTENING EQUATION

OSSIC X is a smart headphone, using a combination of sensors and software to calibrate to the individual listener’s head and ear feature to increase overall sound quality and ensuring the most accurate sound placement. This alone makes for a listening experience that’s ten times more immersive than current technologies. 

HOW IT WORKS
OSSIC calibration process starts as soon as you put the headphones on. The data is instantly paired with our smart algorithms to determine accurate sound playback based on your anatomy and position. No laboratories required.

 

OSSIC X INSTANTLY MEASURES LISTENER'S ANATOMY

 

HRTF DATA IS INTEGRATED INTO OSSIC ALGORITHMS

 

MULTI-DRIVER ARRAY ENSURES ACCURATE SOUND LOCATION PLAYBACK

 

3D Audio naturally replicates the way we hear the world everyday, with measurable results. 

This is done with two types of testing: 

PHYSICS-BASED TESTING

Acoustical, physics-based testing. With a microphone in the ear, does the headphone reproduce the same signal as a real sound in space? Here we compared the OSSIC X to a gaming headphone. 

 

PEOPLE-BASED TESTING

We ask people where they think the sound comes from with the headphone on, and compare it to where the sound was supposed to come from. Here we can see the OSSIC X places sound at the right angle and depth and the gaming headphone does not.

 

 

WHAT'S IN THE BOX:

  • OSSIC X 3D Audio Headphones
  • Long and Short USB Cable*
  • Lightning Cable
  • Micro-USB Cable
  • AUX Cable
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Carrying Box
  • Dust Sleeve

*All cables connect to OSSIC X via USB into the headphones.

Using the AUX or USB connection, OSSIC X is compatible with a multitude of devices to provide 3D audio playback.

 

While the OSSIC X already supports existing standard 2D formats such as stereo, 5.1, and 7.1, we want to make it easy for game and sound designers to go beyond. By using the OSSIC X, you can design fully immersive soundscapes without installing ceiling speakers or sitting in your studio.

FOR GAME ENGINES 

In gaming engines, the sounds can be tied to any objects or characters, and these are already natively positioned in 3D. Currently these sounds get compressed to, at most, 7 channels (and a subwoofer) on a ring around the listener. We are designing plugins that let natively 3D audio pass through to the listener.

We already have a prototype FMOD plug-in running, and it sounds great and operates efficiently. We are testing it with some early developers now. We would love to hear from you! Please fill out the survey to prioritize roll-out for the different platforms: Unity, Unreal, FMOD, Wwise, VST, AU, and/or others. 

Take our Developer Survey

FOR SOUND DESIGNERS 

For audio produced using standard DAWs, we will be supporting VST and AU.

 

ABBEY ROAD RED

OSSIC is proud to join the latest class of innovative companies at Abbey Road Red, a music and technology incubation program within the world famous Abbey Road Studios. More information can be found at http://www.abbeyroad.com/abbeyroadred

 

THX LIMITED
We’re excited to be working with THX to ensure that OSSIC X meets the highest standard for audio reproduction.

 

EVONEXUS INCUBATOR
OSSIC is proud to be supported by the EvoNexus Incubator in San Diego, CA.

 

 

OSSIC started in a home living room in August 2014. Since that time, we’ve spent the last year and a half developing over 9 generations of prototypes and countless acoustic tests in order to bring accurate 3D audio to headphones. 

TESTING

 

PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT

 

The founding team in order: Jason Riggs - CEO, David Carr - CPO, Jose Arjol Acebal - COO, Joy Lyons, CTO
The founding team in order: Jason Riggs - CEO, David Carr - CPO, Jose Arjol Acebal - COO, Joy Lyons, CTO

 

A MISSION TO CHANGE THE WAY WE HEAR SOUND

After working in the audio industry for a combined fifty years developing some of the top selling headphones and speakers on the market, our founding team realized there was a large gap in what was currently available for 3D sound, and what was possible. The technology was available, but limited by intensive laboratory calibration and typically coming at very high cost. The team believed that everyone should have access to the highest level of audio experience possible, so they formed OSSIC in 2015 with one mission: to redefine the way we hear sound by taking the final leap between reproduced audio and audio that's indistinguishable from reality.

 

We’re redefining the way we hear audio in headphones. While we’ve come this far with an incredibly small team and a boot-strapped budget, we need your help in making this technology a reality. 

 MANUFACTURING COSTS 

This is the most capital intensive part of our next phase. We’ve developed many headphones over the course of our careers, so we’ve got a very good idea on costs needed to produce the initial molds, purchase supplies, meet the minimum quantity order, and ship to consumers. We need your help to get us to the production phase of our hardware. 

CREATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF 3D AUDIO

Our goal is to not only develop a product, but help educate the world on the potential of what a 10X improvement in audio immersion can sound like. To do this, we need your support from this initial campaign to not only fund our production, but also get the word out about what we’re developing.

 

FAQ 

What does the shipping fee cover? 
Your additional shipping fee covers shipping and handling to your destination. If you are shipping outside of the United States, it does not cover VAT or additional country taxes.

What is the refund policy?
30-Day Pre-Order Cancellation Window
You have 30 days from date of contribution to cancel and refund your pre-order. Email orders@ossic.com to cancel with proof of contribution. After that point no refunds will be given and the product will fall under the standard product return policy here.

What is the warranty policy?
OSSIC’s Warranty Period is defined as a period of 1 year from the date of delivery to the original end-use purchaser, subject to local law, when used normally in accordance with the instructions, warnings, manuals, labels and Terms & Conditions provided with the product physically and available on-line.  See the whole warranty policy here.

If I preorder now when will I get my OSSIC X?
Estimated delivery of pre-orders will be according to the shipping date specified on your perk. This shipping date is an estimate and subject to change.  It will also act as your spot in line for receiving OSSIC X headphones. See the latest shipment dates on our website: https://www.ossic.com/ossic-x-updates​

Do you have more questions?
Email info@ossic.com for any additional questions!
**Updated Shipment Dates HERE**

 

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