Okeanos Home brings the spatial audio technology of Brandenburg Labs to everyday listening environments. The system is designed to recreate the experience of high-quality loudspeaker systems through headphones, allowing users to enjoy immersive sound for movies, music and games without complex speaker installations. This removes the two core barriers of immersive audio adoption: cost and installation complexity. It is not a conventional headset, but a new category:
a Virtual Home Cinema in Headphones.
The B2C solution is ideal for home entertainment, immersive gaming and high fidelity music listening.
Traditional headphone listening isolates sound inside the listener´s head. Okeanos Home aims to change that by recreating the spatial characteristics of real loudspeaker systems.
The system simulates calibrated speakers positioned in the room, allowing listeners to perceive sound as coming from fixed locations in space. This creates the sensation of listening to a physical sound system rather than wearing headphones.
Whether watching films, listening to music, or playing games, users experience a stable and realistic sound-stage that adapts naturally as they move.
Movies & Home Cinema
Cinematic surround sound without installing multiple speakers. Experience immersive film sound through virtual loudspeakers positioned in your room. Okeanos Home recreates a stable spatial soundstage that brings movies and series to life without complex home cinema installations.
Music Listening
Discover music with natural spatial depth and clarity. Instruments and voices appear precisely positioned in the listening space, allowing you to experience recordings as if they were played through a high-quality speaker system.
Gaming
Spatial audio that enhances immersion and orientation. Sound sources such as footsteps, environments, or dialogue remain fixed within the virtual scene, improving spatial awareness and realism during gameplay.
Shared Listening
Enjoy immersive audio together. Multiple users can connect their headphones to the same system and experience the same virtual speaker environment simultaneously.
Hybrid Speaker Setups
Combine real speakers with virtual ones. Existing speakers can be integrated into the system while additional channels are rendered virtually. This allows setups where real bass and tactile feedback are combined with immersive spatial audio.
Okeanos Home recreates a virtual loudspeaker system within the listener’s room using headphones. Instead of installing multiple physical speakers, the system renders them spatially and keeps them fixed in position while the listener moves naturally. This allows users to experience immersive multichannel audio without the complexity and space requirements of traditional loudspeaker installations.
To achieve this, Okeanos Home separates audio processing, playback, and spatial tracking into dedicated components. Headphones serve as the primary listening interface, while the base station handles audio rendering and system processing.
Spatial tracking beacons continuously monitor the listener’s position and orientation to maintain a stable and realistic virtual loudspeaker arrangement within the room.
It connects to any multimedia device via HDMI, USB, or Wi-Fi and delivers benchmark-quality immersive audio through ultra-low-latency 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) head tracking and room-adap-tive rendering.
A multi-user architecture and open-back headphone enable shared listening, while high wearing com-fort, simple setup, and lightweight design enable long listening sessions and make the user forget they are wearing headphones.“
Okeanos Home is currently under development as part of Brandenburg Labs’ ongoing research into immersive audio technologies and consumer applications. The project explores how professional spatial audio concepts can be adapted to intuitive and accessible home listening systems.
The development of Okeanos Home builds on the long-term vision of Personalized Auditory Reality (PARty). An approach that aims to adapt audio environments intelligently to individual listeners.
Future systems may enable users to shape their personal auditory environment, enhancing desired sounds while maintaining awareness of the surrounding world.