happycamperjack
Head-Fier
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Yea I looked into this before actually. Apparently Dolby doesn't want people to decode surround to their PC to prevent piracy and flooding the market with cheap decoders. So sound blaster extigy was one of the last PC Dolby surround decoder. Until x7. All other consumers decoders after can only decoder to stereo on pc. As for the head tracking, best way to simulate that feeling of immersion is through vrWell yes, but I'm talking about the head-tracking on its own won't make that much of difference in terms of positional cues, at least I fail to see exactly how that would work.
Consoles can't output audio thru USB (USB is for chat audio only, at least on xbox), let alone surround.
Is there a reason GSX and the mobious lack the optical input (is there a limitation compared to USB) to decode DD/DTS signal and apply their processing ? Just like the X7 they could have a optical in, and then use the USB to connect to a computer to apply the processing/drivers.
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