Bluetooth-based Auracast tech can power ‘unlimited’ headphones in public spaces
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG), which manages the technology behind the wireless connection protocol, announced the founding of a new brand focused on wide-area audio broadcasts. Dubbed Auracast, the new initiative will take the assets of the technology previously known as Audio Sharing and develop them as a way to output sound to an unlimited number of devices, using only one transmitter. Most Bluetooth connections feature a single transmitter and a single receiver. This is typically something like…