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Yup, Sony loves to give us hidden things in the firmware updates, which on one hand might be annoying if you don’t know where to find out about them, but on the other hand it’s kind of cool like finding really neat presents or easter eggs!

One of the few undocumented udpates this time around is a new audio visualizer which you can activate by listening to any audio file and then pressing the square button to cycle through the visualizers. This happens to be a realtime render of the Planet Earth in space, complete with the Sun that rises and sets. Really cool and I can’t help but think about 2001 A Space Odyssey while watching it! Put it as the backdrop to some classical music and you have something really spcecial to impress your more sophisticated friends. Besides a new visualizer they also did a minor update to the web browser and updated the PS2 game backwards compatability, all of which were undocumented.

The new Earth visualizer truly is beautiful, take a look at some pictures by clicking here.