It’s currently only available for the Unity engine, which is widely used in VR. Support is planned for Unreal Engine, Wwise, and FMOD.

Presence Platform
The Presence Platform is a collection of development tools and programming interfaces that enable hands and voice interaction and augmented reality capabilities with Quest 2 and Quest Pro, for example.

Applications of the new immersive audio features include virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. For the latter, Meta’s Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets add computer graphics to the video image from their front-facing cameras.

In addition to Meta devices, the new audio SDK supports “almost any standalone mobile VR device” as well as PC VR (e.g. Steam VR) and third-party devices.

New features
New features include better handling of the head, outer ear, and torso filtering effects that greatly affect sound in the real world: The Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) is designed to mimic authentic audio perception accurately. Without it, sounds in your immediate environment will sound unnatural.

The Spatial Audio Rendering and Room Acoustics features build on the previous Oculus Spatializer and will continue to be developed. The system is much better suited for use in VR than the built-in audio systems in popular game engines, which are primarily designed for consoles and PCs, Meta said in its developer blog.

The new Audio SDK offers both flexibility and ease of use. According to Meta, even developers with no audio experience will be able to mix audio, which is essential for immersion.

What else we need to know
The previous Oculus Spatializer will continue to be supported in Unreal Engine, FMOD or Wwise or for those who prefer a native API solution. Meta does not recommend upgrading in these areas yet.

For new projects in Unity Engine, Meta recommends using the new “XR Audio SDK” to better maintain applications in the long run or to try out experimental features.

Dynamis is a complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm developed by Assoc Prof Pham and his former PhD student, now Co-founder and CTO of Eureka Robotics, Dr Hung Pham. Assoc Prof Pham, who is also the Deputy Director of the Robotics Research Centre at NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, explained:

“Today, Dynamis has made it easy for anyone to programme touch-sensitive tasks that are usually done by humans, such as assembly, fine manipulation, polishing or sanding.”

Incubating Eureka Robotics and helping to speed up its commercialisation processes is NTU’s innovation and commercialisation company NTUitive, as part of the Innovation pillar under the NTU 2025 strategic plan, which seeks to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

The ‘Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency’s bill goal is to create a facilitative framework for an official digital currency. It will  be issued by the Reserve Bank of India, and ban all private cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said earlier this month all democratic nations must work together to ensure cryptocurrency “does not end up in the wrong hands, which can spoil our youth”.

The law is due to be presented to parliament in the next session. Without providing further details, the parliament bulletin said It will allow exceptions to promote the underlying blockchain technology.

The government considered criminalising the possession, issuance, mining, trading and transference of crypto-assets earlier this year.