The new 3GPP Immersive Voice and Audio Services codec is part of the upcoming 5G Advanced standard.
The call was made with a regular smartphone over a public 5G network between Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark and Stefan Lindström, Finland’s Ambassador of Digitalization and New Technologies.
The Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) codec enables a spatial “surround” sound, which is expected to have uses in enhancing extended reality experiences. Any devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs, can use this technology.
Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO of Nokia, said: “We have demonstrated the future of voice calls. This groundbreaking audio technology takes you to the caller’s environment creating a spatial and massively improved listening experience for voice and video calls, offering significant benefits for enterprise and industrial applications.”
