Unreal Engine Spatial Audio Chat Plugin by Dolby.io
The Dolby.io Virtual Worlds Plugin Unreal Engine plugin enables full-featured video and spatial voice chat at massive scale. Enable social interactions between hundreds of players and increase engagement with your world.
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While 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 spatial audio.
For video chat, this Unreal Engine plugin supports supports up to 50 chat participants in HD quality, all while allowing participants to share their entire screen or just a window with other players.
Meanwhile, webinar-style events powered by Dolby.io Real-time Streaming capabilities can support an audience of over 100,000 viewers with less than 500 milliseconds of latency.
Key benefits of the Unreal Engine Virtual World Plugin
- Gamers or participants experience lifelike communication via Dolby-powered spatial audio capabilities for two to hundreds of participants in a single chat
- Support over 50 interactive video participants or 250 interactive audio participants, all with immersive spatial audio
- Empower participants to share their entire screen or an application into virtual worlds
- Automatically remove unwanted background noise between gamers via industry-leading noise suppression, eliminating distracting sounds that can break immersion like street noise or fans, or even intermittent sounds like a dog barking or keyboard clicks
- Minimize the CPU load and bandwidth requirements for participants in large scale events via server-side mixing
- Gain full device management capabilities to configure the microphone, speakers, and camera as needed
- Improve participant intelligibility via automatically leveling microphones while balancing speaking and listening volumes for everyone within the game or virtual world
A Dolby.io account is required to use this plugin.
Latest Releases
Dolby.io Virtual World Plugin for Unreal Engine 4.27
Windows x86-64
macOS Intel
Ubuntu Intel x86-64
Dolby.io Virtual World Plugin for Unreal Engine 5.2
Windows x86-64
macOS Universal
(Apple Silicon & Intel)
Ubuntu Intel x86-64
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Documentation
Getting started & tutorials
Blueprint nodes
Start building your virtual world
Unlock immersive social interaction at massive scale in your virtual world with the Dolby.io Virtual Worlds Plugin today.
FAQs
What platforms are supported?
- Windows 10+ x86-64
- macOS 10.14+ x86-64 for UE4
- macOS 12+ x86-64 & Apple Silicon for UE5
- Ubuntu 20.04+ x86-64
How is this different than the Dolby Atmos Plugin for the Unreal Engine?
The Dolby Atmos Plugin for Unreal Engine is used to process and convert the game or application audio to Dolby Atmos. The Dolby.io Virtual Worlds Plugin enables massive scale player to player communication as well as sub-500ms latency streaming into and out of virtual worlds.
Does the plugin support streaming a live video feed into a virtual world such as a jumbotron, movie screen, or video-wall?
This functionality is available through the Streaming Publisher Plugin.
Does the plugin support streaming from a virtual camera to an audience, or into a virtual world?
This functionality is available through the Streaming Publisher Plugin.
Does the plugin support Android or iOS?
Not yet, but these are on the roadmap. To know when these are available, follow the issues in GitHub at the following links: Android: https://github.com/DolbyIO/comms-sdk-unity/issues/40, iOS: https://github.com/DolbyIO/comms-sdk-unity/issues/41.
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