3D Tune-In: 3D-Games for Tuning and Learning About Hearing Aids

3D Tune-In is an EU-funded project which brings together the relevant stakeholders from the videogame industry, academic institutions, a large hearing aid manufacturer, and hearing communities, to produce digital games in the field of hearing aid technologies and hearing loss [2] [3]. The project has now completed the development of the 3D Tune-In Toolkit [1], a flexible, cross-platform library of code and guidelines that gives traditional game and software developers access to high-quality sound spatialisation (both for headphones and loudspeakers), hearing loss and hearing aid simulations. The test application for the Toolkit is currently available for free through the 3D Tune-In project website (http://3d-tune-in.eu/). The C++ code will be released open-source through GitHub in Spring 2018. In addition to the Toolkit, 3D Tune-In has produced 5 different applications aimed at different groups of the hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired communities. The video briefly describes the project context, goals and main outcomes.