Spatial audio resource management and mixing for applications

A computing device, comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the processor, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive contextual data indicating a status with individual applications of a plurality of applications;
• receive policy data defining priorities for individual applications of a plurality of applications;
• generate allocation data indicating a number of allocated audio objects for at least one application of the plurality of applications based, at least in part, on the policy data defining a priority and a status for the at least one application, wherein the number of allocated audio objects for the at least one application does not exceed a threshold number of audio objects that can be processed by a speaker configuration of an endpoint device;
• and
• transmit the allocation data to the at least one application causing the at least one application to control a number of generated audio objects, wherein the number of generated audio objects does not exceed the number of allocated audio objects, wherein the at least one application causes an encoder to render the generated audio objects at the endpoint device.

A method, comprising:

• receiving contextual data indicating a status with individual applications of a plurality of applications;
• receiving policy data defining priorities for individual applications of a plurality of applications;
• generating allocation data indicating a number of allocated audio objects for at least one application of the plurality of applications based, at least in part, on the policy data defining a priority for the at least one application, wherein the number of allocated audio objects for the at least one application does not exceed a threshold number of audio objects that can be processed by the speaker configuration of an endpoint device;
• and
• transmitting the allocation data to the at least one application causing the at least one application to control a number of generated audio objects, wherein the number of generated audio objects does not exceed the number of allocated audio objects, wherein the at least one application causes an encoder to render the generated audio objects at the endpoint device.