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If you have yet to play the demo, there is no better time than now to try it out. We also fixed some controller selection issues in menus. Better controller support: PS4, XB1, and Switch controllers are now supported out of the box and do not require you to enable the Steam Controller features anymore.In case you’re still facing issues, please let us know. We’ve identified the most common crash issue some players were having and confirmed a fix in this new build.

Most common crashes resolved: If you’ve been crashing on the ISM demo, it’s very likely to be resolved in this new update.So, we’ve increased the player height, improved jump momentum for better platforming, improved phrasing in notes & hints, balanced puzzles, and enemies to just name a few! Many small bug/quality of life fixes: Over the past few weeks we’ve read your feedback forms, forum discussions, and Discord chats.Here is a high-level overview of some of the changes we’ve been cooking up:

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We’ve just pushed update 0.731, and you will see in the changelog below that your feedback had a direct impact on many of the changes we decided to make. 'These stimuli might reinforce each other via such audiovisual connections.Let me start by thanking you not only for playing the In Sound Mind demo but also for providing amazing feedback on ways that we can make the experience even better. 'We like to listen to music synchronized with flashing lights or dance… and incidental sound effects accompanying action in movies, such as the comic 'boing' when a cartoon character slips on a banana skin,' the researchers wrote. Participants who reported previously experiencing tinnitus or hearing music in their heads were also more likely to hear sounds while watching the silent video clips than those who did not report tinnitus or hearing music.Īccording to the researchers, the prevalence of this synesthesia-like effect might point to a 'relatively direct effect of low-level visual stimulation on auditory processing,' suggesting that human audio- and visual-processing systems are more intimately linked than previously thought.

However, even the videos showing what the researchers called 'meaningless motion,' including a spinning disco ball and other swirling colors, still evoked audible sensations for many respondents. Not surprisingly, videos that showed events that naturally predicted sound (the flashing police lights, for example) got the highest overall scores for sound sensation.

Results from the video-clip portion of the survey bore out the prevalence of vEAR even further. To that last question, 21 percent of respondents answered yes - indicating that about 1 in 5 participants had experienced vEAR before, the researchers wrote. The researchers also asked survey-takers to answer some basic background questions, including, 'Do you suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears)?', 'Do you ever hear music in your head?' and 'In everyday life are you ever aware of hearing sounds when you see flashing lights or movement?' Each clip was just 5 seconds long, and showed either a real-world event naturally associated with sound (such as police lights blinkering back and forth or a sledgehammer slowly smashing a television set) or a more abstract visualization of motion (such as an array of multicolored balls swirling around a white field).Īfter watching each clip, participants rated how strongly the silent footage evoked an audible 'sound' on a scale of zero to five.

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In the new study, researchers recruited more than 4,100 volunteers to complete an online survey, which asked them to rate how much 'sound' they perceived in a series of 24 silent film clips (you can watch them all here).

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