It is, in fact, Ambisonics (among other features).
Though you don't actually need any of the fancy new stuff being worked on to use Ambisonics - you can already use Opus with Ambisonics today in MP4.
Though you don't actually need any of the fancy new stuff being worked on to use Ambisonics - you can already use Opus with Ambisonics today in MP4.
For example, lets say I have some-atmos-movie.mkv on my local computer, that I'd like to play back through my 7.1 speakers (attached to computer).
In my head, I'm thinking:
1. Needs to be converted to Ambisonics format
2. Player software (eg vlc) needs to understand the resulting format, and send an appropriate bitstream to each output device
Guessing it's not that simple?