I'm not very good at this, but the concept is awesome. Maybe if my audio setup was better, I'd have an easier time navigating this, as I could only tell if a noise was coming generally from my left or right, and it was hard to gauge distance or exact direction.
Still, I'll bookmark this and try it again on a computer with better audio, as I think the concept is really cool.
The way i would usually get a exact direction, is by centering the sound you want to focus on. And other effects, like a source beeing behind has different effects on it. I think the biggest issue is probably, that if you don’t know how it’s supposed to sound, you’re not aware of what to focus on yet. But you are very right in the fact, that sound localization is quite ambiguous by nature. Especially distance is incredibly hard to get, because sound (volume) doesn’t scale linearly with distance. Also i don’t think i got that quite right yet, it’s quite a challenge.
I’ve been thinking, maybe i should record a playthrough of myself going through this, maybe it’ll make more sense for people then.
