When you’re chatting in-game in PUBG, the position of other players doesn’t matter. Everyone sounds like they’re coming through a headset (they usually are), but in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, ...

The most recent PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds patch made a significant change to the way sound works. The PUBG patch, released a little over a week ago, does not appear to be massive at first glance.

At CES 2017, I poked at the first-ever AMD Ryzen systems, played Witcher 3 on a MacBook, and witnessed bombastic tricked-out PCs by the dozen. But nothing impressed me as much as trying Ossic’s ...

Sony isn't letting Dolby corner the market on positional audio. Today, the electronics giant announced that 360 Reality Audio, its immersive listening technology that debuted at CES, is officially ...

Ars Senior Gaming Editor Kyle Orland was the first member of the Ars staff to try out Oculus’ updated Crescent Bay head-mounted display back in September, and since then the Facebook-owned VR ...

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- THX Ltd., renowned for the certification of world-class cinemas and consumer electronics, today announced the THX Spatial Audio Platform, a new ...

It's a good job that Dom Joly has decided that this is the last series of Trigger Happy TV, because people bellowing “I'm on the train” into a handset could soon be a thing of the past. Engineers at ...

Immersive audio is particularly important in an era where games are mainstream and virtual reality is quickly catching on, but there isn't a common framework for it. What works on your PC may be ...

When Sony’s Lead System Architect Mark Cerny first revealed what the PlayStation 5 can do in a presentation released back in March, he dedicated a surprising amount of time to a feature he called “3D ...

In a world where everyone wears headphones, it’s curious that binaural audio is so rare. The technology can create a 3D soundscape more realistic than the best home theater set-up, and yet hardly any ...

Few things in technology are guaranteed to bring you actual joy, but Creative’s Super X-Fi just might qualify for that list. In short, the Super X-Fi distills decades of audio work into a tiny, ...

Apple has introduced a new format for head-tracking spatial audio: ASAF. Apple Spatial Audio Format promises "truly immersive audio experiences" and was unveiled quietly at last week's WWDC 2025 event ...