Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call

Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using a new technology called "immersive audio and video" that improves the quality of a call with three-dimensional sound, making interactions more lifelike, the company said on Monday."

We have demonstrated the future of voice calls," said Lundmark, who was also present in the room when the first 2G call was made, in 1991.

Current smartphone calls are monophonic which compresses audio elements together and sound flatter and less detailed, but the new technology will bring 3D audio where a caller will hear everything as if they were there with the other person. 

 The call was made using a regular smartphone over a public 5G network . The technology can be used not only for person-to-person immersive calls but also in conference calls, where voices of participants can be separated based on their spatial locations