News - Dirac

June 12th, 2017

OPPO’s latest flagships: R11 and R11 Plus

OPPO launched its latest flagships R11 and R11 Plus last week and both devices are powered by Dirac technologies.

June 10th, 2017

Smartisan Nut Pro Released

Smartisan released a new smartphone named Nut Pro yesterday at an event in Shenzhen, China. The mid-range phone uses Dirac Power Sound technology to optimize…

May 31st, 2017

How VR/AR Can Give Teleconferencing a Much Needed Makeover

In today’s global business environment, the ability to work remotely offers a huge work life improvement and ultimately saves on travel and environmental costs. One thing still holding us back, however, is the lack of proper teleconferencing systems. Despite the various solutions available, attempting to work remotely and conduct conference calls with 5-10 people located in various places across the globe is a hugely disappointing and unproductive experience.

May 12th, 2017

Dirac VR Technology Shortlisted for Best Virtual Reality Industry Technology Award

We are thrilled to announce that Dirac VR technology has been shortlisted in the Best Virtual Reality Industry Technology” award category among three solutions by VR & AR World Expo 2017.

May 5th, 2017

Rescuing Smartphone Audio with Digital Soundstage Widening

It wasn’t too long ago that portable audio meant blurry playback on a Walkman, and portable movies were, of course, completely unthinkable. Yet today we consume portable audio in all kinds of environments and for a range of different purposes— for music, games, audiobooks, GPS systems, audio assistants like Siri… the list goes on. And it’s all delivered in the convenient package of a smartphone. For the longest time portable audio also necessitated the use of headphones, and this is still very much the case. The tiny speakers in smartphones, while significantly better than ten years ago, can only do so much. Sure, advanced signal processing has enabled improvements in output level and sound quality over the past few years, but watching a movie on a smartphone without headphones remains a less than massive audio experience. What’s the problem?

April 19th, 2017

Xiaomi unveiled its newest flagship smartphone — the Mi 6

The Mi 6 uses Dirac technologies for earphone and speaker optimizations.

April 18th, 2017

Dirac Research Appoints Lars Isaksson Business Director of AR/ VR

UPPSALA, SWEDEN — Investing further in the build-out of its senior management team, Dirac Research, a global leader in platform-optimized sound enhancement technology, today appointed Lars Isaksson Business Director of AR/VR. According to company founder and CEO Mathias Johansson, Mr. Isaksson will be responsible for driving market demand and product development for the company’s recently introduced Dirac VR audio platform, which delivers compellingly immersive sound with an unprecedented new level of realism.

April 11th, 2017

Dirac Awarded $250K USD by Swedish Innovation Agency to Fund 3D Audio Recording Initiative

Nearly one month after raising over USD $4.85-million from new and current investors, Dirac Research, the global leader in platform-optimized sound enhancement technology, today announced that they’ve been awarded an additional $250K in research funding from Swedish government innovation agency Vinnova for a project pertaining to 3D audio recording for consumer devices. According to Dirac cofounder and CEO Mathias Johansson, the project will leverage the capabilities of their breakthrough Dirac VR audio platform, which debuted in January at CES 2017.

April 7th, 2017

3 Audio Trends Spotted at the 2017 Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona every year. With over 100,000 exhibitors and visitors, it’s by far the most important event in the industry. It also offers a key to understanding the trends of the future—not only in the mobile industry but in relation to how we live our lives. Mobile goes beyond mobile phones and everything you can think of is getting connected. Including some things you might not even imagine.