PRODUCTS

Sony INZONE

PC and PlayStation gamers in the Middle East and Africa have a wider range of options to enrich their gaming experience with Sony INZONE, which offers the latest audio technology and industry-leading innovation across the INZONE H9, INZONE H7 and INZONE 3 headphones. Sony’s 360 Spatial Sound for Gaming, activated by the INZONE Hub PC software, reproduces 2ch stereo audio signals in 7.1ch surround sound as the game creators intended. The precise target detection with 360 Spatial Sound for Gaming optimises acoustics and boosts spatial awareness, thus enabling the player to precisely hear footsteps and movements. The smartphone app 360 Spatial Sound Personaliser also allows users to optimise spatial sound to their ear shape for truly personalised gameplay. Furthermore, the diaphragms of the INZONE H9 and INZONE H7 both have a unique shape that allow the headphones to reproduce extremely high frequency sounds with high compliance, as well as authentic low frequencies for an immersive gaming experience. Ducts on the housing of the INZONE H9, INZONE H7 and INZONE H3 control and optimise low-frequency sound reproduction for powerful bass that makes deep sounds seem incredibly real. The INZONE H9 comes with 32 hours of battery life and INZONE H7 with 40 hours of battery, while INZONE H3 is a wired headset. All three models are equipped with a flexible flip-up boom microphone with mute function, allowing users to communicate effortlessly in-game with squad members. Furthermore, the wide, soft headband cushion spreads the weight evenly across the player’s head for long-term wearing comfort. The earpads are shaped to minimise pressure on the player’s ears by optimising contact with the side of their heads.

GeForce RTX 4080 GPU

The new GeForce RTX 4080 GPU from Nvidia brings a massive boost in performance of up to 1.6x compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, thanks to third-generation RT Cores, fourth-generation Tensor Cores, eighthgeneration dual AV1 encoders and 16GB memory, plenty to edit up to 12K RAW video files or large 3D scenes. 3D artists can now work with accurate and realistic lighting, physics and materials while creating 3D scenes, all in real time, without proxies. DLSS 3, now available in the NVIDIA Omniverse beta, uses RTX Tensor Cores and the new Optical Flow Accelerator to generate additional frames and dramatically increase frames per second (FPS). This improves smoothness in the viewport. Unity and Unreal Engine 5 will soon release updated versions with DLSS 3.

Video and livestreaming creative workflows are also accelerated by the new AV1 encoder, with 40% increased encoding efficiency, unlocking higher resolutions and crisper image quality. AV1 is integrated in OBS Studio, DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro, the latter through the Voukoder plug-in.

The new dual encoders capture up to 8K resolution at 60 FPS in real time via GeForce Experience and OBS Studio and cut video export times nearly in half.

Qualys TotalCloud

Qualys has announced TotalCloud with FlexScan delivering cloud-native VMDR with Six Sigma Accuracy via agent and agent-less scanning for comprehensive coverage of cloud-native posture management and workload security across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. As business applications and onpremises infrastructure migrate to the cloud, security teams struggle with managing cyber risk across cloud workloads, services, resources, users, and applications. Additionally, teams must deal with a plethora of industry acronym-driven point solutions that provide a fragmented view of risk without context. This approach increases security costs and complexity while leaving cloud applications vulnerable to attacks. With more than 31 million workloads already secured by Qualys, Qualys TotalCloud extends the accuracy of VMDR with cloudnative FlexScan assessments to unify Cloud Posture Management and Cloud Workload Security in a single view with risk insights. TotalCloud automates inventory, assessment, prioritization and risk remediation via an easy-to-use drag-and-drop workflow engine for continuous and zero-touch security from code to production cloud applications.

AXIS ALL-IN-ONE PENDANT SPEAKERS

Axis Communications has announced two new multipurpose, easy to integrate, all-in-one pendant speakers. Ideal for mounting on high, open ceilings, the visually attractive speakers can be used to make live or pre-recorded announcements and to play background music, improving the customer experience and supporting security and safety.

AXIS C1510 Network Pendant Speaker and AXIS C1511 Network Pendant Speaker are all-in-one speakers that make audio announcements smart and easy. The new speakers are particularly well-suited to retail stores, shopping malls, and other environments where design is of importance, blending seamlessly and elegantly into any surroundings. The pendant speakers can be installed in any ceiling, regardless of height, through simple adjustment of the cable length depending on requirements.

The new smart speakers allow customers to mix live or pre-recorded announcements and commercial ads to suit various needs and increase business efficiency, and also play background music to improve the customer experience.

Like all Axis network audio devices, the new speakers connect to standard networks and use one network cable for both power and connectivity (Power over Ethernet).