Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation
Meta
Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation (Audio360 Suite) was a free software suite by Meta / Facebook for designing spatial audio for 360° video and cinematic VR. It included DAW plug-ins (FB360 Spatialiser, FB360 Control), a time-synchronised 360-video player, FB360 Encoder application, and a Rendering SDK for integration into VR applications. Used a hybrid binaural / Ambisonic engine with simple shoebox-room early reflections, mix-focus regions, and a custom .tbe file format originally developed by T
History & Background
Originally developed by Two Big Ears (acquired by Facebook in 2016). On 11 March 2022, Meta announced that support for the Audio360 suite would end on 16 May 2022, citing 'the abundance of quality tools for creating 3D immersive, spatial audio'. After that date the suite was no longer available for download; Meta said it would continue supporting external downloads of the FB360 Encoder for the foreseeable future, but as of subsequent reports the official download links were broken. The full source repository is preserved at github.com/facebookarchive/facebook-360-spatial-workstation.