SONIC VEIL AB-01 · 音频屏障器
A near-future acoustic system for dense shared spaces: two people stay in the crowd, keep situational awareness, and still enter a perceptual privacy bubble.
Form
4 emitters · 1 sensor node · 1 edge core
Claim
Perceptual privacy bubble, not absolute silence.
Audience
Investor / media launch with a real open-source ending.
SONIC VEIL AB-01
The bubble is not sold as silence. It is sold as a controlled conversational envelope: clearer for the pair, less intelligible for the crowd.
Problem definition
Perceptual privacy bubble
Speech inside becomes easier to understand; speech outside becomes weaker and harder to parse.
No claim of perfect silence, zero leakage, or universal isolation in any room.
AI-assisted selective listening
The stack can privilege enrolled voices in a crowd and improve the useful signal for the pair.
No claim that acoustics alone solve the cocktail-party problem.
Safe operating envelope
Tracking loss, calibration drift, and uncertain exposure states must trigger lower output and transparent UI warnings.
No claim that futuristic visuals waive the need for exposure limits, measurement, or certification.
Mechanism stack
Layer 01 · Directional ultrasonic emitters
prototypeFour ceiling or desktop nodes launch steerable ultrasonic carriers that aim toward a shared conversation volume.
The system does not claim a magical invisible wall. It claims controlled sound delivery: narrow aim, lower spill, and a stable geometric envelope around the two speakers.
Layer 02 · Active field shaping
productizationA beam-control stack continuously trims side lobes and reduces unintended audible spill outside the bubble.
This is where product discipline matters: array calibration, phase alignment, room profiling, and a lower-power idle mode when certainty drops.
Layer 03 · Target-speaker extraction
prototypeMicrophone arrays capture the mixed scene, then focus the speech model on the two enrolled voices instead of every nearby talker.
This is the answer to the real problem. In a crowd, acoustics alone cannot perfectly erase interference, so selective listening has to become part of the stack.
Layer 04 · Tracking and fail-safe control
researchHead and mouth tracking update the control geometry in real time and rapidly reduce output when the system loses confidence.
Perfect privacy is not promised. A safe, measurable degradation path is. When lock quality drops, the bubble shrinks, the level falls, and the UI surfaces uncertainty.
Interactive bubble demo
WebGL
Desktop prefers the 3D bubble stage when WebGL is available.
Fallback
Mobile and non-WebGL environments fall back to a static, readable geometry card.
Feasibility ladder
Prototype now
Mid-term productization
Far-term research
Scenario value
Open office
10 voices · 3 m²Small project huddles happen inside the team floor instead of escaping to meeting rooms.
Design target: speech becomes clearer inside the bubble while outside listeners lose sentence intelligibility first.
Train lounge
Mobile cabinPairs can review plans, negotiate, or take sensitive calls without sealing themselves off with headphones.
Design target: faster re-lock after body sway and seat vibration.
Command cell
Dense control roomCritical operators can exchange short tactical speech while the room keeps its shared awareness.
Design target: transparent uncertainty handling and power-reduction fail-safe.
Creator desk
Studio / desktopA solo creator can enter a review bubble with an editor while the studio remains socially open.
Design target: usable on desktop stands before a full ceiling deployment exists.
Open route