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Amazon Promises “single-digit latency” for AR/VR Streaming Over 5G with AWS Wavelength

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Last month Amazon quietly announced the ‘Wavelength’ platform as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering. The new ‘edge computing’ service promises “single-digit millisecond latencies” over 5G networks. These network hops can result in latencies of more than 100 milliseconds.

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Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth

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Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs develops processors that can well compete with those from AMD and Intel. It should be noted that Amazon offers up to 64 vCPU cores with its R7g instances (i.e.,

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NGCodec Closes $8M Series A Investment, Aiming to Make Low Latency Cloud-based VR a Reality

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NGCodec , a cloud video processing company creating low latency codecs for video and interactive VR, announced the closure of an $8 million Series A funding round, bringing their total funds to $15.9 Closing our Series A round will propel our technology into the 5G era, bringing our total raised to $15.9M

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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

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To be clear, both of these technologies — and other industry jargon — represent real opportunities and accelerants… they’re just a bit overused (and misused) at times. 5G, for example, is often generalized as a technology that will unlock spatial experiences due to faster speeds and low latency.

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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

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Cloud game streaming for the masses still has a way to go, and it’s important to embrace both the advantages and the reality of the technology rather than try to oversell where it’ll be in the future. It’s critical for us to start with latency-tolerant games so we can deliver a good experience for players across a variety of devices.

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NVIDIA CloudXR is Launching on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS

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NVIDIA is continuing the rollout of its CloudXR technology on the three leading cloud computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. CloudXR is a specialized solution for the unique latency and performance requirements of VR and AR streaming. Image courtesy NVIDIA.

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Cloud Streaming Coming Soon to Varjo Reality Cloud

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See Also: XR Streaming: The Future of Immersive Technologies? Varjo, NVIDIA, and Amazon Join Forces. This is all possible through Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA GPUs and reduces the necessary connected device for the user to a “low-end gaming laptop or middle-road engineering laptop,” according to Konttori.