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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. : ... Read full article.