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Dolby.io’s Spatial Audio feature was the perfect solution for this use-case, offering a method of dynamically mixing participants’ audio while preserving the spatial relationship between them. In designing the format, I naturally gravitated toward a two-dimensional top-down view where participants can wander freely throughout the space interacting with others using real-time voice and video. This format is easy to understand as it resembles familiar physical spaces and is highly flexible. 3rdspace recently took 3rd place in the Dolby.io Build the World Hackathon.