Dolby’s research on volumetric video creation explores how volumetric video can become easier to create, use, and edit. The idea is to explore more practical volumetric workflow that aligns with real production needs across media, design, and immersive experiences.

Some of Dolby’s research highlight capabilities like generating synthetic multi-view data and restoring post-production control through relighting. These approaches improve how existing content can be reused and make early-stage 3D creation more accessible by generating data at lower production cost. They can also be used as previz tools before the actual set up of physical rigs to help creators work more efficiently.

What Volumetric Research Enables Next?

Dolby’s Volumetric research goes a long way.

Some use cases can be:

In virtual production, this could mean capturing performances once and adjusting lighting later without compromising realism.

In immersive media, it could enable more accessible creation of viewable-from-any-angle content from standard video sources.

In creative design, it offers faster ways to explore spatial ideas through text-driven generation.

While the immediate impact is not a fully automated 3D pipeline that captures every detail perfectly, creators can decide when to simulate, when to reconstruct, and when to generate, and still work toward a consistent output format. The long-term opportunity lies in convergence. As these capabilities mature, they begin to form a cohesive ecosystem where different entry points—capture, video, or text—can lead to an outcome that is stable, editable, and practical to deploy.

What it takes to build a 3D world

There's a gap between what immersive media promises and what most people can actually make. At Dolby, our current recent research efforts are working on those gaps where each one solves a different problem. Read more:

VoluCapture → Creates the training data

RelightableStudio → Lets you edit lighting after capture

Across work shared at IEEE MIPR 2025 and the Asilomar Conference 2024, Dolby's research has been working on each of those fracture points.

Rethinking Volumetric Video: How Dolby Is Bridging Research and Real Workflows

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