Third Party Audio

By default, the Beam Streaming Manager will try to place a Unity Audio listener and Unity Microphone listener into your scene at run time. However, if you are using a third party audio solution such as Wwise or FMOD, you will need to make a few minor adjustments to your Beam structure.

All of the third party audio solutions require the usage of Scripting Define Symbols to enable, they will not activate unless you enable the correct symbol.

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Please note that if you disable Unity Audio, microphone capture will not work. A better microphone solution will be added in a future release that will alleviate these issues.

Wwise Setup

This assumes that you have already installed Wwise into your project and have followed the Streaming Package Setup process.

• Navigate to your Project Settings > Player > Other Settings > Scripting Define Symbols
• Insert a new Scripting Define Symbol of BEAM_WWISE and wait for Unity to recompile
• Navigate to your BeamXR-Streaming prefab
• Add a new object as a child of it

• Add the Beam Wwise Listener component to the object

• All done! The Beam Streaming Manager will automatically find the audio listener when your application starts.

You can freely adjust the audio buffer as needed for your application. Increasing the buffer will reduce pops and clicks but may introduce extra latency at larger buffer sizes. If you are intending to run your application at a lower frame rate, then you should increase the buffer size.

FMOD Setup

This assumes that you have already installed FMOD into your project and have followed the Streaming Package Setup process.

• Navigate to your Project Settings > Player > Other Settings > Scripting Define Symbols
• Insert a new Scripting Define Symbol of BEAM_FMOD and wait for Unity to recompile
• Navigate to your BeamXR-Streaming prefab
• Add a new object as a child of it

• Add the Beam FMOD Listener component to the object

• All done! The Beam Streaming Manager will automatically find the audio listener when your application starts.