Xbox Series X may push sound more than ever before with "dedicated hardware acceleration"

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The teaser for a potential new Xbox Series X feature comes not via 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:yet another alleged next-gen leak, but rather the . Titled "Building Audio Gateways Into Immersive Worlds With Spatial Sound (Presented by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft)", it specifically teases some fea🌞tures of "newer generation Xbox consolesꦍ." Here's the full synopsis for the event.

"Learn from the audio designers of Borderlands 3 and Gears of War 5 around how a collaboration between Microsoft, Dolby, and our middleware partners kicked off a revolution with spatial sound that turns any pair of headphones into a multi-dimensional gateway to another world. Attendees will dive d📖eep into the audio design pipeline (Project Acoustics) and t🌠he relationship to dedicated hardware-acceleration on newer generation Xbox consoles."

To be clear, Xbox One doesn't feature "dedicated hardware-acceleration" for audio. It and most other consoles process sound on their CPUs, only including a dedicated card for graphics acceleration. While discrete sound cards are still used in some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best gaming PCs, many get along just fine with whatever's built into their mo𓆉therboard. If Xbox Series X features hardware acceleration just for audio, you can expect Microsoft to put a thunderous emphasisღ on sound for the next generation.

It won't be alone. PS5 architect Mark Cerny said back in April that the system's chipset will , which will "make you feel more immersed in the game as sounds come at you from abov⭕e, from behind, and from the side."

All of this is to say that you may want to invest in some nice new speakers and one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best gaming headsets before the next generation arrives.

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