Solutions

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.

START BUILDING FOR FREE

Contact sales

Trusted by our customers

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

Dolby Atmos

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

Dolby.io transforms how you experience virtual worlds through more natural and lifelike conversations with realistic spatial positioning, powered by Dolby Atmos technology.

Two might be company, but three ISN’T a crowd. You need more than a handful of people to join an event for it to feel immersive. Where traditional communications solutions prioritize the three loudest (N-Loudest) voices, Dolby.io revolutionizes virtual world interaction by enabling developers to build unforgettable events that support hundreds of active speakers through spatially mixing audio on our server.

Spatial mixing dramatically reduces the amount of bandwidth and client-side compute resources needed to run spatial communications in a virtual world. The result is happy end users who benefit from longer device battery life and stable connections even when joining from slower internet connections, while developers can build larger and more complex worlds without worrying about technology limitations.

Dolby Atmos technology enables position-based listening experiences that make it easy to identify who is talking in a 3D environment. If someone on the left side of your screen talks, their voice will come from your left speaker or headphone. If they are behind you, their voice will come from behind while accurately reflecting how close or far away they are. Spatial placement adds a sense of depth and realism to social interactions and pulls the user deeper into the virtual experience.

Keep people immersed in your virtual experience. Dolby.io automatically removes unwanted background noise from end user communications by suppressing distracting sounds like barking dogs, street noise, or keyboard clicks that can break immersion.

Dolby.io cleans up your audio stream by removing the conference output from your mic, ensuring others don’t hear themselves echoing back.

Dolby.io automatically levels microphones in 3D environments, balancing speaking and listening volumes for everyone within the virtual world. The results are conversations that sound natural and lifelike.

Stream media in or out of your virtual world with Dolby.io Real-Time Streaming player and publisher plugins. Not only can you take a broadcast or webcam feed and render it on a 2D texture with the player plugin, but you can also stream a virtual camera out of your virtual world to audiences on any device with our publisher plugin. Devs can even stream multiple virtual cameras out to any browser and utilize our multi-view feature to play back multiple cameras at the same time.

DEVELOPER PLATFORM

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

Documentation

Take me there

Developer blog

Read now

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.

Access the solution guide

Immersive virtual experiences you’ll
always remember

Join Dolby.io as we create the next generation of immersive, interactive, and social online experiences.

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.