So what does this mean? You'll get comfy Dolby quality with

http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2017/01/05/dolby-atmos-windows-10-going-finally-bring-surround-sound-masses/

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>>58344774
STEREO FOREVER YOU FUCKING RETARD. Surround is a meme that has been burning through the fortunes of absolute idiots for decades.

>>58344774
it's just dolby, I have no idea why realtek cant do it because this stuff is handled by a processor and not a dac

>>58344813
>implying

I watched the matrix for the first time in 1999 with full surround sound while witting in the middle of it with a comfy recliner.. It was glorious.

>>58344838
all this is is just a, shitty software trick to make it seem like surround when it has nothing to do with positional accuracy

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>>58344774
>How does this work? Why aren't there 3rd party Dolby drivers out there yet? It must be simple then, right? What am I missing?

No one has bought it from Dolby yet to put on Windows. So MS bought it to put into windows.

All that Dolby Atmos stuff can easily be done on the CPU and output to any surround sound cards.

The thing about Atmos is that it adds a few 3D positional sound sources... video games have been doing this for a decade or two anyways.

Any Headphone virtual surround using the Dolby Atmos label, likewise, can easily be done on the CPU as there are already many software implementations of this.

In fact, on Windows 10, Netflix automatically decodes Dolby Digital Live surround into 5.1 channels for you.

The key here is that MS and Netflix, etc. PAY Dolby to have this working in Windows.

This is why Linux is so far behind Windows as a multimedia OS.

>>58344897
audio positioning is done by the game engine

all this is shitty surround sound effects

>>58344897
My Chink phone has this Dolby Atmos thing and it makes music sound great. But what does this spatial thing have to do with music? I mean as I understand it just converts 5.1 audio to special kind of stereo, so with simple stereo musicnit should make no difference right?

Or is it just the equalizer in the phone? Could be.

>>58344774
How many ears you have? That's right: two. Just like how your headphones have two sides.

With a proper software, you can emulate Dolby Atmos (TM) with it's 64 channels and hear that with your two ears. Note: headphones needed, it won't work with speakers. Just like those ASMR videos on jewtube.

Overwatch has Dolby Atmos emulation since last May when it was released. It's fucking awesome and a game changer. if you know maps well you can just stop for a second in a flank route and then tell where exactly Symmetra put her teleporter down, just from some sound fragments.

>>58344960
dolby atmos is old technology
This stuff has been done since the late 90s

Atmos is a meme, 7.1 is good enough.

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>>58344774
It's just software processing. The same thing that's been included with any half-decent sound card.