Show HN: AudioNimbus – Steam Audio's immersive spatial audio, now in Rust
Published on: 2025-06-20 20:58:36
audionimbus
A Rust wrapper around Steam Audio, bringing powerful spatial audio capabilities to the Rust ecosystem.
What is Steam Audio?
Steam Audio is a toolkit for spatial audio, developed by Valve. It simulates realistic sound propagation, including effects like directionality, distance attenuation, and reflections.
What is AudioNimbus?
AudioNimbus provides a safe and ergonomic Rust interface to Steam Audio, enabling developers to integrate immersive spatial audio into their Rust projects. It consists of two crates:
audionimbus : A high-level, safe wrapper around Steam Audio.
: A high-level, safe wrapper around Steam Audio. audionimbus-sys : Automatically generated raw bindings to the Steam Audio C API.
Features
AudioNimbus supports a variety of spatial audio effects, including:
Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) : Simulates how the listener’s ears, head, and shoulders shape sound perception, providing the acoustic cues the brain uses to infer direction and distance.
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