Spatial and realistic audio experience from the cloud The technical validation and demonstration of new technologies is one of the main tasks of T-Labs. This is often achieved through the use of demonstrators that bring the innovations to life and clearly illustrate the practical application possibilities and benefits of new technologies. One example is the demonstrator of the new 3GPP voice communication codec "Immersive Voice and Audio Service" (IVAS), which is now available from 5G Release 18. IVAS enables the transmission of spatial audio over mobile networks and is optimized for the highly efficient compression of immersive audio. This enables immersive audio with very low bandwidth, low latency and low computing effort in the [...]