Dolby bringing 3D voice chat to consoles, Mac

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The audio specialist is bringing its 3D Axon technology to video game consoles as well as the Mac to enable a bunch of neat new voice chat tricks for console games.

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E-mail Share 3 comments Share Dolby Laboratories on Thursday announced its plans
to bring its Axon 3D voice chat technology from the PC over to the Xbox 360
PlayStation 3 and the Mac The software development kit SDK will be made
available to all game developers in April though it’s already been in beta
testing with a handful of developers which Dolby would not disclose The
technology which has been available to PC game makers for the past year adds
three-dimensional location to a game’s voice chat channel This gives gamers a
sense of where other players are talking from when heard through a pair of
headphones or a 5_1 or 7_1 speaker setup In a phone call with CNET earlier this
week Matt Tullis who is Dolby’s director of marketing said Axon will be able to
be retrofitted into older games through a software update though he expects most
developers to simply build it into their upcoming titles The benefits of doing
so go beyond the 3D sound and include things like volume normalization echo
reduction and background noise reduction The technology can also take into
account things like players being behind walls or closed doors–game elements
beyond distance that can cut out sound One thing console developers can do now
that they can’t do on the PC Tullis says is take advantage of mixed audio setups
in which users have a surround sound setup and a stereo headset On consoles like
the Xbox 360 and the PS3 this can be a common occurrence Developers will be able
to use Axon to program things like walkie-talkies into their voice chat systems
so as to allow players to experience chatting to someone from far away as if
they were using a radio in-game As for the inclusion of Mac Tullis acknowledged
that the Mac may not be close to the games powerhouses that the PC and home
consoles are but that it is a growing market You definitely have some major
games that support the Mac Tullis said Valve’s Steam just announced they’re
coming to the Mac And 5 percent of World of Warcraft users are on Mac too The
one home console that’s not getting Axon support in Dolby’s console SDK is
Nintendo’s Wii The reason for this is simple as the console does not even have
Dolby Digital the sound technology that first appeared in the last generation of
consoles with the Xbox and PlayStation 2 Instead the Wii uses Dolby’s Pro-Logic
II technology which takes stereo and samples it into surround sound There’s also
the fact that only eight Nintendo Wii titles use voice chat Dolby did not say
when it expects to see the first batch of Axon-ready console games on the market
but given its pre-existence on the PC and beta testing with some developers
before this announcement it seems reasonable to expect we could see the first
crop of titles as early as the holidays Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware_com
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