Sony is introducing XYN as a tool for making spatial content.
Sony is introducing XYN as a tool for making spatial content.
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Sony’s XYN is a tool — and XR headset — for making the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony announced the launch of XYN (/zin/), an integrated software and hardware solution designed to support the creation of spatial content.

Spatial content is another way of saying 3D graphics for applications such as the metaverse, the much-hyped and now unutterable word for spatial computing applications. But you can pretty much call these tools for making the metaverse.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.