Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made the world's first phone call using a new technology called “immersive audio and video”.
It reports agency Reuters.
«We demonstrated the future of voice calls»,– said the CEO of Nokia.
Today's smartphone calls are monophonic, which compress the audio elements together, and sound flatter and less detailed.
The new technology improves the quality of the call with three-dimensional sound, making the interaction more realistic. This means that the subscriber will hear everything as if he were next to the interlocutor.
«This is the biggest leap forward in the field of voice calls since the introduction of monophonic telephony, which is used today in smartphones and PCs», – noted Nokia Technologies president Jenny Luckander.
Nokia made a call using a regular smartphone over a public 5G network. Nokia Technologies noted that in addition to calls with the effect of presence, the technology can be used in conference calls, where the voices of participants can be separated, depending on their spatial location.