His work has even appeared on the front page of Reddit.Īrticles he's written have been used as a source for everything from books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at the City University of New York's Queens College and CNN contributor, to university textbooks and even late-night TV shows like Comedy Central's with Chris Hardwick. His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called "the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web" and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly.
Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's "World Beyond Windows" column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS.
He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. So, if you're playing a game and a sound is coming from above your character and to the right, the sound will be mixed before it's sent to your headphones so you hear that sound as coming from above you and to the right.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. When you enable one of these features, your Windows PC (or Xbox One) will mix the audio using the positional data, providing a virtual spatial sound experience.
You just need to enable either "Windows Sonic for Headphones" or " Dolby Atmos for Headphones." Both work similarly, but Dolby's version uses Dolby's technology and has a price tag, while Windows Sonic uses only Microsoft's technology and is included for free with Windows 10 and the Xbox One. However, this positional data can provide spatial sound in any pair of headphones. Even if you have a traditional 7.1 stereo surround sound system, you're just getting normal surround sound with eight channels of audio-seven speakers plus your subwoofer. This spatial data would normally only be useful if you have a Dolby Atmos system that can actually use it.
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