Deployed in more than 60 countries and more than 150 post-production facilities, Dolby Atmos has been used for soundtracks on many regional local-language films and Hollywood titles to deliver heart-pounding action-adventure blockbusters, lush romances, feel-good comedies, and animated features. The technology paves the way for creative storytelling, building full audio atmospheres that excite the senses and inspire emotion, advancing what audiences then come to expect from cinema.

Dolby Atmos is a key component of the Dolby Cinema experience, a premium cinema offering for moviegoers that combines spectacular image and sound technologies with inspired design to deliver the total cinema experience. Currently, more than 50 Dolby Cinema locations are screening films around the globe.

Since launching in the cinema, Dolby Atmos has become an integral part of the next-generation entertainment experience for consumers, enabling sound to come alive from all directions, including overhead, to deliver astonishing clarity, power, detail, and depth. Delivers a fully immersive entertainment experience, the technology has been adapted to support listening to music, watching movies or television shows, or playing video games.

Dolby said that the success of Dolby Atmos, as a vital component of some of this decade’s powerful films, has paved the way for new applications in home theater, PC and mobile devices, video games, virtual reality, and even music venues, such as the famous Ministry of Sound nightclub in London.

In addition, more than 20 titles are now available for over-the-top delivery by streaming-service providers like Vudu, which has begun delivering content encoded in Dolby Atmos as part of its 4K content offerings.

Since its debut in cinemas worldwide, Dolby Atmos has been embraced by all of the major Hollywood studios and industry-leading filmmakers, including 15 Academy Award winning directors and 28 Academy Award winning sound mixers. Eighteen films featuring Dolby Atmos soundtracks have garnered Academy Award nominations, and eight of them have won for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Animated Feature Film, and Best Director.

Dolby Atmos delivers moving sound that can be precisely placed and moved anywhere in three-dimensional space, including overhead. It brings entertainment alive all around the audience in a powerfully immersive and emotive experience.