Xbox Series X — 3D Spatial Sound – "Walking in Steve’s Dreams" demo

[lunanto]

Headphones on please.

 

[h3ro]

Amazing tech. Following a few console generations of pushing graphics above all, I'm glad the console manufacturers are finally taking sound design and hardware seriously.

 

[Strandr]

Destiny ASMR haha

 

[ekim]

Hm... not really impressed. Just some more or less clever panning, level and frequency adjustments. But I haven't played a game with headphones for ages. So maybe games did sound worse before.

 

[KepperC]

Are you meant to listen to this on the Xbox with Dolby Atmos on?

 

[Orioto]

I'm not sure i see the point, am i missing something there ?
Cause i mean yeah that's binaural. But if it's not actually with a video of a game generating the sound dynamically, that's just.. a binaural mix.. There is no context to it it shows nothing

 

[EvilBoris]

Are you meant to listen to this on the Xbox with Dolby Atmos on?

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No, it will be pre encoded

 

[The Albatross]

The crunching snow made me uncomfortable. fucking hate that sound, it's so close to styrophoam for me.

 

[Caesar III]

There is no context to it it shows nothing

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it's meant to work that way on the fly with surround sound downmix to binaural stereo. As Creative does for ages with their Soundblaster cards.

 

[Nif]

Surprised to see all of these 3D audio demos and hype lately. The tech's been around forever. I'm glad it's being standardized, at least.

 

[samred]

that they're sharing this on YT, which is notorious for sound compression and frequency cut-offs, is galaxy-brain shit to me. sound frequency trickery is crucial to spatial and binaural audio via headphones, after all. like, the effect is okay, but it's not as good as Atmos-coded audio fed directly to headphones.

 

[J-Wood]

So how do I enable this? I have Dolby Atmos headphones, and the DA license thing enabled on my series X.

But when I look at Destiny 2, it doesn't have an Atmos tag. Does this mean I need to change the headphone audio format from Dolby Atmos in the Xbox settings?

 

[Deleted member 5028]

This is quite nice

 

[WRC]

i heard much muuuch better biaural demo/streams and this is not even close... maybe its youtube tho.

 

[Snake Eater]

How are we supposed to listen to this and what is it supposed to represent?

 

[tomofthepops]

I listen to this quite often ( starts off in normal stereo)

 

[-shadow-]

This tech has never impressed me, just sounds like a weird echo or reverb filter on regular stereo to me.

 

[dem]

Whatever Apple is doing with Spatial audio with the gyro and accelerometer... I want that. That is incredible sounding.

This does nothing for me.

 

[jett]

I'm not sure i see the point, am i missing something there ?
Cause i mean yeah that's binaural. But if it's not actually with a video of a game generating the sound dynamically, that's just.. a binaural mix.. There is no context to it it shows nothing

Click to shrink...

Right, it's your average binaural recording.

 

[hey it's that dog]

Would this sound better on an Xbox itself? I got lots of panning effects but not a fully 3D soundspace.

 

[Green]

Yeah. Pretty good. Devs gotta dev, though.

Hellblade was good.

 

[Adult Contemporary]

So weird that xbox marketing excludes the series s