Absolute BS. Show us how this new audio chip will be better than Atmos? And a clear advantage to Sony, when the amount of people with speaker systems capable of playing this audio is minuscule. Pure hyperbole again.

Complete speculation regarding the hardware and faux '3D' effects from small speaker systems. Audio manufacturers have been doing this stuff for donkeys years and they are all crap. Unless you have a full system, and height speakers, it won't make a difference.

Looks like the PS fans are losing it.

Im sure they'll support ATMOS and DTS:X - media play back will still need to be catered for.

No

3d audio is nothing new, but since is coming to ps5 is something innovative lmao

You all are delusional if you even think both consoles can hold a candle next to a high end PC. They are at best mid-range PC's there is nothing wrong with that, they will both perform damn good, but by the time they do launch the PC will be much more advanced in terms of CPU and GPU horsepower, we will have even more ray tracing in games that perform much better than what we have now on the PC

Feb 12th

I have the platinum headset.

Can I use it wireless with PSVR to get 3d audio or do I have to use the physical cable between the VR head unit and the platinum headset?

Raytraced audio may allow for as many channels as your hardware can support.
On consoles that might have will undoubtedly have an upper limit, but when PC gets its head in the game that can literally translate into infinite upgradeability...

Or you can just use a great pair of stereo headsets and the game will dynamically pump sound into those two channels based on player position, direction, speed relative to any given array of sound sources and distance to any source of sound plus dynamically simulated reverberations and even sound interference patterns that you would hear in real life.

For example disorientation from the sound of a near explosions might actually play well into FPS shooters especially in Battlefield or CoD and of course you can play these sounds at volumes that won't blow your eardrums out if you're actually not aiming to go deaf and still get the muted effect of human voices under mortar fire or even the claustrophobia inducing bass of a concert as well as other disparate soundscapes (personally I'd crank the sound way up to experience them at appropriate volumes). These sometimes subtle sound phenomena might even scare the kids away from those kinds of games at least for the first few days.

Exactly, is nothing new but since is for the new sony console the fanboys here think is only possible on PS5

Headsets can't tell you where things are in a 3D space if the software pumping sound to the set doesn't know where things are.

Seriously how do you think this stuff works? PS5 raytraced audio is something developers typically already implement in their games but is never really able to be experienced due to limited audio channels and support for dynamic audio mixing. Many sounds you hear in most games are prerecorded or synthetic sounds playing back at preset volumes with little adherence to real distance, sound occlusion or doppler effects and other environmental effects like simulated echoes and reverberation. Most sounds and effects are canned and that's why halls and rooms in most games have characteristic sounds that sometimes feel repetitive.

Sound is very complex and good acoustics can really help sell the feeling of being there more than 60FPS or even VR in my opinion. VR with crap sound is basically a screen locked to your face. Perhaps this is one of those things that's missing from PC VR software that makes it feel so weird in some games?

Raytraced audio is still playing prerecorded audio of course but the sound is allowed to bounce dynamically around the scene and the source of any sound should fall off naturally based on your physical distance from it with the potential of sounds actually interfering with others just as they do in real life. Sound quality we currently don't see in many games even now. Many racing games outside of Gran Turismo don't pay much attention to the doppler effect and the first time this was really noticeable for me was when I played AC04 on PS2 and WipEout Pure on PSP.

Doppler effects were driven the the speed that you are traveling at and sound fall off was driven by proximity and while these were simple simulations based on one or two parameters 3D audio has the potential to really enrich the soundscape of any given game by also mixing sound effects through raytracing software like how light is mixed in raytracing software!

Just imagine the load this can take off developers. Computers mix virtual photons through mathematical expressions that take into consideration the properties of materials light is passing through. Raytraced audio can do the same meaning developers don't have to record audio more than once to apply sound effects and while this has already been done in some games now it can be done in any game in realtime without having to consider trading space for more audio assets. Meaning games with a lot of audio samples and voices can also be even smaller. Audio is the next largest waste of space in videogames so pulling redundant files out saves time in loading and downloading/installing games.

All of those things might sound like small pluses but they're pluses that reduce strain on developers and create a more believable environment for players, that's exciting stuff!

The current list of Dolby Atmos compatible games includes:

Overwatch
Battlefield 1 (PC)
Star Wars: Battlefront
Gears of War 4 (Xbox One X)
Gears 5
Crackdown 3 (Xbox One/Xbox One X)
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Assassin’s Creed Origins (Xbox One X)
Final Fantasy XV (Xbox One X)
Rise Of The Tomb Raider (Xbox One X)
Super Lucky’s Tale (Xbox One X)
Mass Effect: Andromeda (PC)
For Honor
Forza Horizon 4
Metro Exodus
Resident Evil 2
The Division 2
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Shadow of the Tomb Raider

There, I saved someone writing an article about it.

Nine Souls does now.