I’ve never been the prime target market for much of Discord, given I don’t make use of big groups and multi-channel servers. For me, it’s just a tool to chat to select friends, which is why most Discord updates go in one ear and out the other. But not this one, because it looks like the voice chat platform might be getting a big new change to its core feature: voice chat.According to Pirat_Nation and DiscordPreviews on X, the Canary (experimental) version of Discord has some hidden gubbins pertaining to spatial audio, and it looks like some keen eyes have even dug it up and got it running.We got it working. This is how the early stages operate. pic.twitter.com/mU9miOUc0IMay 27, 2026It looks like the way they’ve got it working is by using BetterDiscord which allows you to enable DevTools in a panel on the right. I downloaded this and got it running on Discord Canary but couldn’t get the panel up, as a Chrome wrapper Inspect panel popped up instead. So I’ll have to go off these other users’ reports for now. It looks like the feature, presumably being tested for an upcoming release in the bona fide Discord app, lets you position users you’re in a call with around you at different angles and distances. Discord then makes it sound like they’re at this position and distance from you when they speak.The idea is, I think, to make it easier to distinguish between different people talking and make things…
