System and method for providing a spatialized soundfield

A spatialized sound method, comprising:

• determining a head location and orientation of at least one listener in an environment with respect to an audio transducer array with a spatial sensor;
• transforming a received audio program according to a spatialization model and a head-related transfer function with a signal processor;
• generating an array of audio transducer signals for the audio transducer array based on the transformed audio program representing spatialized audio;
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• communicating the determined head location and orientation of the at least one listener in the environment with respect to the audio transducer array to a remote server.

A spatialized sound system, comprising:

• a housing having a transducer array comprising at least four independently controlled audio transducers;
• a spatial sensor within the housing, configured to determine a head location and orientation of at least one listener, and location and characteristics of at least one object in an environment with respect to the housing;
• an audio signal processor within the housing, configured to transform a received audio program according to a spatialization model and a head-related transfer function based on at least the determined head location and orientation of the at least one listener, and the location and characteristics of the at least one object in the environment with respect to an audio transducer array;
• and
• an amplifier within the housing, configured to generate an array of audio transducer signals for the audio transducer array based on the transformed audio program representing spatialized audio;
• and
• a network interface configured to non-personally identifying information relating to a pose of the at least one listener to a remote server.