Patent attributes
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting a spatial audio by using multicast that are capable of efficiently transmitting spatial audio data of multiplayer content by using multicast. The spatial audio transmitting apparatus includes a plurality of servers communicatively connected to a plurality of client terminals executing multiplayer real-time content to be separated by a multicast group. A server included in the respective multicast group transmits the first player information to the other servers included in the multicast group in a multicast method so as to be shared when receiving first player information from a client terminal executing the multiplayer real-time content, and mixes spatial audio based on the first player information and the second player information and transmits the mixed spatial audio to the client terminal in a unicast method when receiving second player information from another server included in the multicast group.
