Idea - X-Fi's successor - proper 3D sou

Howdy all.
Just thought I'd try and stir some discussion about what the successor to X-Fi should look like.
I don't know about you, but I find the whole 5. and EAX stuff really overhyped for gaming. Doesn't matter whether I'm using 5. speakers or headphones, the results are nowhere near realistic. At best I can get an idea if a sound is coming from the left side or the right side, and even then it sounds wrong.
So here's the idea then - how about implementing 3D sound properly in the successor to X-Fi?! It's actually pretty hard and requires a lot of processing grunt with low latency; see
http://www.aip.org/pt/nov99/locsound.html
http://www.jvrb.org/3.2006/589
http://www.helsinki.fi/~ssyreeni/dsound/dsound
I'm thinking a set of headphones that you wear, perhaps with a built-in head tracker that tells the sound card where your head is pointing. The sound card, which has been trained with your 'head transfer function', uses this information to process the various EAX sound sources in real time and adjust them so that they actually do seem to be coming from the correct spot.
Sounds like the perfect reason to buy an add-on soundcard instead of just using the on-motherboard 5. sound. I'd sure pay extra for it, if it actually worked.
Cheers
Richard

So I gather that means you agree that
"With headphones X-Fi CMSS-3D externalizes the audio by creating ten virtual speakers around you, above you and below you for an experience that's so real you'll forget you're wearing headphones."
Maybe your head and ears are shaped very differently to mine, but it sure doesn't sound at all realistic to me. Turning on CMSS-3D Headphone just makes things sound like they're coming from either left-ish, right-ish, or inside-my-head-ish.

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