DOLBY VISION FOR GAMES
Conquer HDR, unlock a new realm of creative possibilities, and simplify your imaging pipeline with Dolby Vision.
Xbox and Dolby redefine next-gen gaming
With support for Dolby Vision games coming in 2021, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will be the first consoles ever to enable gaming in both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
Xbox and Dolby redefine next-gen gaming
With support for Dolby Vision games coming in 2021, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will be the first consoles ever to enable gaming in both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
The problem with HDR for gaming and how to solve it
Alexander Mejia, product manager for Dolby Vision Gaming, shares how Dolby Vision is cleaning up the HDR pipeline.
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The problem with HDR for gaming and how to solve it
Alexander Mejia, product manager for Dolby Vision Gaming, shares how Dolby Vision is cleaning up the HDR pipeline.
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Master your game in Dolby Vision
Dolby Vision HDR brings incredible brightness, contrast, and color to your games for a more intense, immersive, and engaging experience on Dolby Vision TVs, laptops, and monitors — and creates your HDR10 and SDR outputs in a single unified pipeline.
What is Dolby Vision?
Leveraging our history elevating the visual experience in the cinema, Dolby Vision combines two powerful technologies — high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut — with an ecosystem of Dolby Vision TVs, laptops, and monitors that deliver unseen levels of color and contrast to ensure that players experience your world exactly how you imagined it.
What is Dolby Vision?
Leveraging our history elevating the visual experience in the cinema, Dolby Vision combines two powerful technologies — high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut — with an ecosystem of Dolby Vision TVs, laptops, and monitors that deliver unseen levels of color and contrast to ensure that players experience your world exactly how you imagined it.
Push the boundaries of color and contrast
Dolby Vision gives you a new, expanded realm of ultravivid color, striking brightness, dramatic contrast, and lifelike detail that transport players into the world of your game. Even compared to generic HDR, Dolby Vision gives you a broader, more realistic palette of color and contrast to create stunning visuals.
Push the boundaries of color and contrast
Dolby Vision gives you a new, expanded realm of ultravivid color, striking brightness, dramatic contrast, and lifelike detail that transport players into the world of your game. Even compared to generic HDR, Dolby Vision gives you a broader, more realistic palette of color and contrast to create stunning visuals.
DOLBY VISION | GENERIC HDR | SDR | |
| Bit depth (higher bit depth = less color banding) | 12 bit (4096 shades per color) | 10 bit (1023 shades per color) | 8 bit (256 shades per color) |
| Color gamut | P3 up to Rec. 2020 | P3 up to Rec. 2020 | Rec. 709, BT 1886 |
| Mastering luminance | 1,000 min. up to 10,000 nits | Typically 1,000 nits | 100 nits |
| Scene-based metadata |  | ||
| Per-target artistic trims | |
Ensure your game stays true to your vision
Players play games across a wide variety of displays, each with different brightness capabilities and color performance. Dolby Vision and our ecosystem of Dolby Vision TVs, laptops, and monitors protect your artistic intent, ensuring that players experience your game as it was meant to be seen, the way it looked on your reference monitor.
Ensure your game stays true to your vision
Players play games across a wide variety of displays, each with different brightness capabilities and color performance. Dolby Vision and our ecosystem of Dolby Vision TVs, laptops, and monitors protect your artistic intent, ensuring that players experience your game as it was meant to be seen, the way it looked on your reference monitor.
Platform support
Dolby Vision device partners
Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR in a single pipeline
Don't sacrifice the look of your game or your time trying to manually match different masters of your game in SDR and HDR10. Master your game once in Dolby Vision — the in-game Dolby Vision tone mapper will generate consistent and matching outputs for Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR displays.
Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR in a single pipeline
Don't sacrifice the look of your game or your time trying to manually match different masters of your game in SDR and HDR10. Master your game once in Dolby Vision — the in-game Dolby Vision tone mapper will generate consistent and matching outputs for Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR displays.
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