Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving spatial audio information captured by a plurality of microphones, receiving a captured audio object from an audio device wirelessly connected to the apparatus, determining an audio audibility value relating to the audio device, determining whether the audio audibility value fulfils at least one criterion, and activating, in response to determining that the audio audibility value fulfils the at least one criterion, inclusion of the audio object captured by the audio device in the spatial audio information captured by the plurality of microphones.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: detecting a tracking tag in proximity of a user device (the tracking tag not being pre-associated with the user device); responsive to the detection (and while the tracking tag remains in proximity of the user device): identifying one or more contextual parameters associated with the tracking tag; and responsive to determining that the identified one or more contextual parameters meet a predetermined criterion or criteria, issuing or causing issuance of an alert to the user device and/or to the tracking tag.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: wireless charging an energy storage device in the apparatus; using energy from wireless charging and/or the energy storage device to render mediated reality content to a user of the apparatus, wherein the mediated reality content rendered to the user is a virtual scene determined by a virtual point of view within a virtual space, wherein a real point of view of the user, defined by a location and orientation of the user in real space, determines, via a mapping between the virtual space and the real space, the virtual point of view within the virtual space of the virtual user; and in dependence upon a wireless charging parameter, changing the mapping between the real space and the virtual space to enable improvement of the wireless charging parameter.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: receiving an indication of a form factor of a device; selecting an audio component, in dependence on the receiving an indication of a form factor of the device and in dependence on an assigned location of a graphical user interface object associated with the audio component, wherein the graphical user interface object is assigned to at least a first display area when the device is in a first form factor and is assigned to the at least a first display area when the device is in a second form factor; controlling audio processing of audio associated with the selected audio component; and providing at least the processed audio for audio output by one or more loudspeakers.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program are disclosed. The apparatus may include circuitry configured for determining, relative to one or more real audio sources in an environment, a relative position of a virtual object in the environment. The circuitry may be configured for determining, based on the relative position, an occluded region of the environment in which audio signals from the one or more real audio sources would be occluded by the virtual object. The circuitry may be configured for outputting, to a user in the environment, audio data, the outputting circuitry configured to operate in a first mode and in a second mode. The circuitry may be configured for switching the outputting means circuitry between the first mode and the second mode based on a location of the user relative to the occluded region.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing a gallery or user interface comprising a plurality of images; identifying either a mirrored or non-mirrored state associated with at least one of the images; determining, based on at least one criterion, that at least part of the at least one image is to be modified from its associated mirrored or non-mirrored state to the opposite state; and based on the determination, performing the modification.

Abstract: A method comprising obtaining a video feed from a camera, transmitting the video feed to an online video meeting, determining a change of status of the video feed, based on the determined change of status, modifying the video feed, and transmitting the modified video feed to the online video meeting.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode, an operation associated with a touch sensor on said earphone device is changed.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing a gallery or user interface comprising a plurality of images; identifying either a mirrored or non-mirrored state associated with at least one of the images; determining, based on at least one criterion, that at least part of the at least one image is to be modified from its associated mirrored or non-mirrored state to the opposite state; and based on the determination, performing the modification.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, computer program and system for indicating audibility of audio content rendered in a virtual N space. Certain examples provide determining 401 at least one user 602, 603 to whom audio content 901, from a first user 601, rendered in a virtual space 600, is audible; triggering 402, responsive to said determination, the generation of an indicator 1001 to the first user for indicating that the first user's audio content is audible to at least one user.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising capturing spatial audio data during an image capturing process, determining an orientation of an image capturing device during the spatial audio data capture, generating an audio focus signal from said captured spatial audio data (wherein said audio focus signal is focused in an image capturing direction of said image capturing device), generating modified spatial audio data (e.g. by modifying the captured spatial audio data to compensate for changes in orientation during the spatial audio data capture), and generating an audio output signal from a combination of the audio focus signal and the modified spatial audio data.

Abstract: A method including capturing, by a low latency monitoring device, content visualized in video rendering mode, capturing at least one parameter modified in the video rendering mode, determining at least one correction update message for modifying the captured content based on the at least one captured parameter modified in the video rendering mode, determining a content production stream based on the captured content, sending the content production stream to a receiver device, and sending the at least one correction update message to the receiver device, wherein the at least one correction update message is configured to be used by the receiver device to retroactively fix an audio rendering of the captured content based on aligning the content production stream and the at least one captured parameter modified in the video rendering mode.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for providing first virtual content for presentation, which first virtual content is associated with a first space and comprises one or more first virtual objects. One of the first virtual objects may comprise one or more virtual objects having respective audio signals and another may represent a miniature representation of a second space into which the user can transition. The miniature representation may have a second scale, smaller or larger than the first scale, and may comprise one or more second virtual objects having respective audio signals audible from outside of the second space. The apparatus may further comprise means for determining whether at least part of the user is within the first space or the second space, and dependent on the determination, modifying the audio signal of one or more of the first or second virtual objects.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a means comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, to receive multimedia data representing a scene, the multimedia data comprising at least audio data representing an audio component of the scene. Another operation may comprise determining a location of unwanted sound in the scene. Another operation may comprise performing first audio processing to remove at least part of the unwanted sound from the determined location. Another operation may comprise performing second audio processing to add artificial sound associated to the unwanted sound at the determined location.

Abstract: From multiple audio objects in an audio scene, one or more audio objects of interest are identified. First audio signals associated with the plurality of objects are processed for provision to a user device. The processing may be based on a position of the user device in an audio scene. The processing may include combining the first audio signals associated with the audio objects to form combined first audio signals, modifying the amplitude of the combined first audio signals and limiting to a first level the maximum amplitude of the combined first audio signals. The processing also includes modifying the amplitude of one or more individual first audio signals, associated with the one or more audio objects of interest, the modifying the amplitude of one or more individual first audio signals being independent of that for the combined first audio signals.

Abstract: This specification describes an apparatus, method and computer program relating to virtual reality, particularly augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality (MR). The method may comprise providing, based on a position associated with a display means, different first and second sets of virtual content for overlaid display at the display means at a first time and determining that the first set of virtual content is prioritized over the second set of virtual content. Based on the determination, the method may comprise prioritizing display of the first set of virtual content over the second set of virtual content at the display means, and enabling display of the second set of virtual content at a second, subsequent, time.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described, comprising: determining a similarity between a content of a first zone and a content of at least one or more other zones of a multi-zone virtual scene, in response to a modification of the content of said first zone, wherein content as perceived by a user within said scene is dependent on a virtual position of the user within said scene; and determining an updated rendering position of the first zone relative to said one or more other zones within the virtual scene, dependent on the determined similarities.

Abstract: Apparatuses, computer programs and methods are provided. A first method includes responding to user input, at a wearable user input device, by causing transmission of a radio frequency signal includes a request from a pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device. The request may be a request to cross a road. A second method includes responding to the user input, provided by the pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device, by causing motion of a vehicle to change. The motion of the vehicle may be changed in order to enable the pedestrian to cross the road.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program are described comprising: receiving first interaction data at a first user in a multi-user virtual environment, wherein the multi-user virtual environment comprises a plurality of users including the first user; receiving metadata relating to the first interaction data at the first user; and rendering a first object to the first user in accordance with the first interaction data and the metadata, wherein the metadata includes instructions for selectively modifying one or more of the rendering of the first object and an interaction of the first user with the virtual environment.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: present a virtual reality space having at least one defined and non-defined region; control a point-of-view location and a direction-of-view orientation based on sensors configured to sense the user in a real-world play space; receive input to move by means other than said sensors; determine if the requested point-of-view location is allowed or not allowed wherein a location is not allowed if any physical locations in the play space correspond to point-of-view locations in the virtual reality space that lie within a non-defined region and if the requested point-of-view location is not allowed, determine at least one of: (i) a compromise point-of-view location; (ii) a compromise direction-of-view orientation; (iii) a compromise point-of-view location and direction-of-view orientation; (iv) a compromise physical position of the user in the real-world play space; and present the virtual reality space from/with the at least one of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).