Sony Tempest

The Tempest 3D AudioTech is Sony’s proprietary, hardware-accelerated object-based spatial audio engine, introduced with the PlayStation 5. Eschewing licensing fees for third-party formats, the Tempest Engine utilises a customised GPU compute unit to process hundreds of discrete audio sources simultaneously. By leveraging extensive Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF), it delivers hyper-accurate, 360-degree positional audio via standard stereo headphones.