Sony tests a new PS5 3D audio profile setup to personalize in-game effects

The latest PlayStation beta lets you create personalized 3D audio profiles on your PS5 that could help you “better sense the positions of characters and objects in a game world.” If you’re wearing headphones or earbuds with your PS5, you can perform sound tests to optimize the audio to best suit your needs.

As shown in the video provided by Sony, the tests will ask you various questions, like where you hear a particular sound coming from and the angle you hear a sound moving in. Based on your answers, your PS5 will create an audio profile that will be saved to your account and ideally improve the simulated effect to help you track sounds around you in games.

You can create an audio profile by going to the settings menu and selecting Sound > 3D Audio (Headphones).

Additionally, if you have friends or family members who are signed in to their accounts on your PS5, you can now choose whether they can access your console for Remote Play or whether they’ll need their own system to stream College Football 25 on a PlayStation Portal.

You can modify these permissions by going to the Settings menu and selecting Systems > Remote Play > Enable Remote Play. From there, you’ll see a list of users signed in on your PS5, along with toggles that allow or restrict access.

There’s a new adaptive charging feature for DualSense wireless controllers, DualSense Edge wireless controllers, PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, and Access controllers — but it’s only available on the latest PS5 model released last year. If enabled, your PS5 will limit the amount of power supplied to your controllers while in rest mode, depending on your controller’s battery level. It will also stop supplying power to the USB port if you don’t have a controller connected.

The beta is available to “selected participants” in the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, and France. Sony notes that it plans to roll out the update globally in the “coming months.”