Apple’s spatial audio feature, which works with the company’s AirPods Pro earbuds and AirPods Max headphones, offers a pretty cool way to get immersive audio from both music and movies. Support for spatial audio, however, is far from universal when it comes to streaming video services, with the most notable holdout being Netflix. But that’s about to change, aswe’ve had confirmation from Netflix that the streaming giant has begun to roll out spatial audio support to iOS devices.
Spatial audio, in Apple’s world, works in two different ways. If you’re listening to Apple Music on an iOS device (and soon, Android devices, too), you can use any set of headphones or earbuds to experience tracks that have been recorded in Dolby Atmos Music the way they were meant to be heard.
But the second way, which is more relevant to the Netflix rollout, leverages the onboard sensors for Apple’s AirPods Pro and AirPods Max headphones to create a virtual experience that matches what a movie would sound like if you were in a movie theater. This kind of
Netflix wouldn’t confirm whether or not it has plans to move its
As far as Apple is concerned, any movie or show that has a Dolby Atmos or Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is eligible for the
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