Dolby Games News

Over the last few years, we've heard a lot about Dolby Atmos for Xbox and PC games, and now we're excited to bring you Dolby Atmos for Mobile Games. 

In this post we'll talk about Jade Dynasty: New Fantasy, the first title from Perfect World Games to launch supporting Dolby Atmos.

Spatial sound helps you improve game quality by making sound a more integral part of the action. As with anything new, there are best practices and pitfalls involved in using this technology correctly. Best practices range from emphasizing sound planning to understanding all the sound-related variables affecting the gaming experience.

Spatial sound allows game developers and designers to enrich worldbuilding and provide more accurate directional cues, taking players’ gaming experience to a new level of realism.

Project Acoustics is a physics-based wave acoustics engine that uses your 3D geometry to automatically generate the sound parameters needed to create realistic audible spaces in your game. It gives life to 3D environments by accurately modeling the effect of sound waves bouncing off walls and floors and the echoing reverb of open space. 

Surround sound and dynamic audio have shown the critical role audio plays in making gaming experiences immersive, but they’ve only approximated positional audio until now.