GDC 2023: Dolby Announces Atmos Support in PUBG Mobile

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Greetings, fellow Droid Gamers. Welcome to day two of our GDC 2023 coverage. We’re still here, meeting a wide variety of developers and publishers as we strive to bring you coverage of the latest and greatest games in the Android gaming space.

You can still find our coverage of day one, which we’ll still be updating as the day progresses. It takes us a bit of time to write up each meeting, but we’ll strive to do so as quickly as possible. We’ve still got plenty of exciting content ahead, so stay tuned to Droid Gamers and bookmark these two stories to get the most of our coverage.

Meanwhile, Meriel and Adele are hard at work bringing you fresh content on the latest titles, so GDC won’t interrupt the usual flow.

While at GDC, we caught up with Dolby at its very own HQ in San Francisco. We got a full showcase of Dolby Vision and Atmos in a wide variety of content, including streaming video and gaming – primarily on Xbox. Microsoft has fully embraced Vision for Gaming and Atmos, and it really shows.

But most exciting to Android gamers is the news that Dolby Atmos support is finally coming to mobile, and is here right now, in fact. Earlier this week, Dolby announced that PUBG Mobile is the first game to embrace this technology, and it’s live right now in ‘Arena Mode’.

We got a chance to sit down with the new mode, and were immediately impressed with the extra level of immersion the audio enhancements made. It’s a lot clearer now to get a feel for where your opponent is, and you can use the direction of gunfire to get you right back in the action.

Not only that, but bullet-fire and explosions really pop in Atmos. It really makes you feel like you’re in the thick of the action. It also gives elevates the mobile experience, and