Chrome Sounds Extension Uses HTML5 to Enhance Experience
Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
In fun jest as Google always does for April Fools, they have announced on the Chrome Blog the release of a Chrome Extension that will enhance a user’s audio experience while surfing the web:
“Taking an earful of inspiration from the HTML5 audio tag, we’ve spent the past few months deep in psychoacoustic models, the Whittaker-Nyquist-Kotelnikov-Shannon sampling theorem, Franssen effects, Shepard-Risset Tones, and 11.1 surround sound research to build a cutting-edge audio-driven user interface for our users, available through a new Chrome extension. With this extension, Chrome will provide audio feedback as you browse to web pages and interact with the browser”
I must say that the entire post “Unmuting the web with Google Chrome” sounds convincing if this were posted on any other day that April Fools. That is, save for the very last paragraph where they announce plans to also add support via an extension for the “olfactory experience” sometime in the future.
I installed the extension for the fun of it, and it certainly offers some audio, basically sound effects that make your Chrome browsing experience much more “musical”.
