PARIS, Jan. 23 -- Germany's Brandenburg Labs has presented prototype headphones capable of delivering unprecedented immersive audio quality by adapting to your position and head movements.

In a few years' time, this technology could be used in a new generation of virtual reality headsets for a whole new world of immersive experiences.

German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg is known as one of the inventors of MP3, the famous audio data compression format that revolutionised the way people listened to and shared music.

Today, his laboratory is showcasing an immersive augmented reality headphone system.

Brandenburg Labs is billing its technology as "the first truly immersive audio experience." This new augmented reality audio system recre...