Audio capture and rendering for extended reality experiences

A method of playing one or more of a plurality of audio streams, the method comprising:

• storing, by a memory of a content consumer device, the plurality of audio streams and audio location information associated with the plurality of audio streams and representative of audio stream coordinates in an acoustical space where an audio stream was captured or audio stream coordinates in a virtual acoustical space where an audio stream was synthesized or both, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield;
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• determining, by one or more processors of the content consumer device, device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space;
• selecting, by the one or more processors and based on the device location information and the audio location information, a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the subset of the plurality of audio streams excluding at least one of the plurality of audio streams;
• and
• outputting, by the one or more processors and based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds.

A content consumer device configured to play one or more of a plurality of audio streams, the content consumer device comprising:

• means for storing the plurality of audio streams and audio location information associated with the plurality of audio streams and representative of audio stream coordinates in an acoustical space where an audio stream was captured or audio stream coordinates in a virtual acoustical space where an audio stream was synthesized or both, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield;
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• means for determining device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space;
• means for selecting, based on the device location information and the audio location information, a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the subset of the plurality of audio streams excluding at least one of the plurality of audio streams;
• and
• means for outputting, based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a content consumer device to:

• store a plurality of audio streams and audio location information associated with the plurality of audio streams and representative of audio stream coordinates in an acoustical space where an audio stream was captured or audio stream coordinates in a virtual acoustical space where an audio stream was synthesized or both, each of the audio streams representative of a soundfield;
• and
• determine device location information representative of device coordinates of the content consumer device in the acoustical space;
• select, based on the device location information and the audio location information, a subset of the plurality of audio streams, the subset of the plurality of audio streams excluding at least one of the plurality of audio streams;
• and
• output, based on the subset of the plurality of audio streams, one or more speaker feeds.