Dolby Axon: chat should exist in the game, not out of it

[Karga]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/04/dolby-axon-chat-should-exist-in-the-game-not-out-of-it.ars

can't wait to have this technology in the next generation MMORPG games.
Maybe a Diablo World or something else made by Blizzard.

[delling]

Wow, very cool.

If I get surround-sound headphones...

[Daekesh]

Sounds cool.  Don't think it'd work in a raid situation, though... We have enough problems hearing people stuck half way across the room in a Constrictor Tentacle, without the sound having to get through Yogg-Saron's fat arse.

[delling]

'Speak up, there's a tentacle in the way!'

'Mpfmfmfmmmm!'

'What? You're constricted now?'

[Gaeios(Graxlos)]

but hardcore players may simply dump the feature to add a tactical advantage.

its not for raiding but it seems really fun, its probably more for a gamle like L4D where it could make it even more realistic and scary.

[Goza]

Isn't it supposed to be quite shit? It doesn't support filtering, just alters the volume depending on the distance between targets. Occlusion is done the same way. Technically it's ~ EAX 2.0

Anyway the whole idea of a proprietary solution seems a bit superflous, I don't think it'd be a big problem for voice chat output just being fed into a game's sound pipeline. DirectX Audio etc