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

Road to VR

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

Road to VR

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 Now dialing in on virtual reality, the company has created what it calls Reality Codec, a low delay H.265/HEVC

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

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We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. According to NVIDIA , “CloudXR lets you leverage NVIDIA RTX-powered servers with GPU virtualization software to stream stunning augmented and virtual reality experiences from any OpenVR application. Your Forecast: Cloudy.

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How Will 5G Accelerate Geo-local AR?

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That brings the low-latency that AR needs, while unlocking the next generation of bandwidth-intensive spatial experiences. Because Google and Amazon don’t have data centers every 300 kilometers, infrastructure operated by telcos will have a key role in the geo-spatial AR future, otherwise known as the metavearth.

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Cloud Streaming Coming Soon to Varjo Reality Cloud

ARPost

A release shared with ARPost called the addition of streaming to Reality Cloud “progress towards the company’s vision of bringing real-life collaboration into the metaverse” by bringing the company’s “human-eye resolution” experiences on 35 Mbps bandwidth. Varjo, NVIDIA, and Amazon Join Forces. We are not at launch time yet.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

As described in my first HTC Vive Tracker article earlier this year: “Vive Tracker is a wireless, battery-powered SteamVR tracked accessory that provides highly accurate, low latency 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) motion tracking within a roomscale environment.”. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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All the most interesting AR and VR news from MWC 2018

The Ghost Howls

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. This is surely an advantage in virtual reality: and the new S9 is both Gear VR and Daydream compatible , so you will be able to live a new awesome level of mobile VR graphical quality with the headset of your choice.

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