Binaural recording is the process of creating a 3D soundscape which allows you as a listener to become really immersed in the situation that the sounds is trying to present to you.

DearVR  I think is a simple enough plug-in which allows you to track the audio around the given space, replicating the premise of the listener position and allowing you to focus on the development of the audio being in a certain space at one given time. As well as placement the plug-in allows you to replicate reverberation of different spaces to try and help with that immersive quality.

The interest and consideration for VR and binaural based mixing in productions is one that I believe really lends itself to the enjoyment of film and TV production.

Take for example the BBC Proms being able to not just watch the piece being played and hearing it as we normally would in stereo, but being given the opportunity to listen to it as if you were there?

The ability to be able to immerse yourself in a piece of media is certainly something that is interesting and could potentially change the way in which film and TV is going to be viewed in the future.

Below is what I produced using the dearVR plugin to try and create the sense of being in a space. You will need to listen in headphones to get the full effect of what I have attempted to create.

The one thing I am yet to understand is how binaural will effect music production, I am still wondering whether or not this will catch on and that listening to music as if you are there will be something that is pushed as the latest trend in the next few years.

For live situations and scenarios it would be great but for typically recorded output I am not so sure.

Whilst looking through the web there is a lot of output of binaural beats. Pieces which again help to try and put you in a different place, scenario or situation. Binaural mixing seems to be about putting you in a place, a space or situation. Unless recording artists are wanting to create something like this, I feel it is going to be more prominent on visual and audio based media than traditional music production.