Crystal River Engineering
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Audio Technologies |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Defunct | 1997 |
| Fate | Dissolved by Aureal after merger. Assets were later acquired by Creative Technology |
| Successor | AuSIM |
| Headquarters | Fremont, California |
Key people | Scott Foster, Founder Jonathan Abel, Chief Scientist |
| Brands | AudioReality |
| Parent | Aureal Semiconductor |
| Website | www.cre.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 22, 1998) |
Crystal River Engineering Inc. was an American technology company best known for their pioneering work in HRTF based real-time binaural, or 3D sound processing hardware and software. The company was founded in 1989 by Scott Foster after he received a contract from NASA to create the audio component of VIEW (Virtual Environment Workstation Project), a virtual reality based training simulator for astronauts. Crystal River Engineering was acquired by Aureal Semiconductor in 1996.
Crystal River's innovations in the field of real-time 3D audio processing were published in a series of papers by NASA's Elizabeth Wenzel and Crystal River's Scott Foster.