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Virtual Worlds: Improve social interactions for more immersive Dolby Atmos experiences
Dolby.io drives social interactions by improving the quality of communication and drastically increasing the number of people you can hear in a virtual world.
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Virtual world immersion

Immersion in virtual worlds depends not only on visual effects but also on a compelling audio experience. In addition, it is a function of scale and number of active users. The larger the world, the more there is to explore and the more people you can potentially meet.
But the way you can currently interact with people in virtual worlds has room to improve. Existing communications solutions limit you to hearing only a handful of people and they need to be “standing” right next to you. How can developers create a truly immersive experience when technologies don’t scale to reflect the size of the environment?
The answer is Dolby.io Spatial Audio

Dolby.io Spatial Audio drives social interaction and immersion by dramatically increasing the number of people you can interact with in a virtual world. Not only can you hear hundreds of voices, each with the unique richness, clarity and tenor you’d find in real world interactions, but you will also be able to tell precisely where people are thanks to spatial positioning, powered by Dolby Atmos technology.
Now in General Availability
Unreal Engine and Unity plugins for virtual worlds
Dolby.io makes it simple to add spatial audio to your Unity and Unreal projects with easy-to-follow documentation. Developers can also take advantage of our spatial communication capabilities by using our JavaScript SDK with experiences powered by Unreal Engine pixel streaming to web browsers and mobile devices. If you need to stream external audio or video into or out of your virtual world, our Real-time Streaming Unreal Engine and Unity plugins support more than 100,000 viewers with less than half a second of latency.
- Dolby Atmos
- From three to hundreds of voices
- Spatial mixing
- Spatial placement
- AI background noise reduction
- Echo cancellation
- Dynamic audio leveling
- Stream live audio and video into your Virtual World








Developer resources
Dolby.io makes it easy to get started using our Virtual Worlds solutions. We provide easy-to-follow documentation and how-to guides, and our support plans are just a button click away to help you get your virtual world up and running.
Plugin Documentation
Dolby.io Real-time Streaming for Unreal Engine and Unity












Learn more with the solution brief for virtual worlds
Dive into our solution brief to learn how Dolby.io helps you create more immersive and engaging virtual worlds.
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Spatial Audio is a differentiating capability for our platform. After encountering a few roadblocks in our development with various spatial audio providers, we decided to make the switch to Dolby.io. With Dolby.io, we not only achieved a better level of spatial audio fidelity, but the Dolby.io’s SDK was also more user-friendly to integrate.
Maxime Long
Co-founder and CTO at Odyssey
The process of upgrading from our existing communications solution to Dolby.io was seamless, and brought an extra dimension to Mytaverse. Our users were amazed by the new sound quality and the spatial aspects of it. We see a bright future using Dolby.io technology for our communications protocol in Mytaverse.
Jaime Villegas
Co-founder and CTO at Mytaverse
Virtual worlds
Online gaming
Augmented and mixed reality
Social interaction

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