LG Continues Gaming Push, Bows $500 Stand-Alone Speaker

LG, which promoted gaming-friendly features such as low latency in recent TVs, launched a $499 speaker for gamers. The UltraGear GP9 is designed to "free users from headphones" in response to feedback saying headphones can be inconvenient and uncomfortable in marathon gaming sessions. LG's 3D Gaming Sound technology uses a head-related transfer function algorithm to tailor a game’s audio according to genre, providing a virtual surround sound with “realistic sense of space, position and directionality," it said.