Tiledmedia at IBC 2017: Impossible to Miss

31 Aug – Tiledmedia at IBC 2017: Impossible to Miss

If you are looking for innovation at IBC, it will be extremely hard not to run into Tiledmedia.

Our ClearVR tiled streaming technology will be demonstrated at the booths of quite a few innovative companies in the VR360 ecosystem, all of them leaders in their market segment: Akamai, Ericsson, Harmonic, Viaccess-Orca and DTS (an Xperi Company). Furthermore, we will be announcing integration with NGCodec for encoding in the cloud, on Amazon EC2 FPGA Instances, which puts us on a path to shortly support Live VR360 services.

This is in line with Tiledmedia’s market approach: to offer our technology through integration with best-of-breed partners rather than doing everything end-to-end ourselves.

Please contact us at [email protected] to see our ClearVR technology in action.

Akamai Technologies – 5.B52

A good CDN with many points of presence is important for any VR service, but it is absolutely crucial for Tiled VR Streaming. Working together, Akamai and Tiledmedia have implemented optimizations in Akamai’s network and in Tiledmedia’s ClearVR networking stack, enabling extremely rapid switching in response to head motion in head-mounted gear, and in response to zooming & panning on flat screens (tablets and phones). When access network conditions are favorable, the switching is virtually unnoticeable, which is unique for this type of solution.

At IBC, we are showing on-demand content streaming from Akamai’s production CDN to GearVR and an Oculus Rift headsets. We will also show VR streaming to an Android tablet for “flat navigation”.

The joint work will be presented at the Conference as well, where David Sztykman of Akamai will join Tiledmedia’s CTO Ray van Brandenburg in delivering the paper “CDN optimization for VR Streaming” at the Session Solving OTT’s Achilles’ Heel: Scale

Ericsson – 1.D61

Together with VRIF members Sky and Ericsson, we will showcase a real application of Virtual Reality (360 video) synced with live sports. This will be an industry-first demonstration of VR (360 video) enhancing the viewing experience and deliver a truly immersive live TV event in the home.

Visitors to the Ericsson booth (Hall 1, D61) will have the opportunity to see what it’s like to be in the dugout when their favorite team scores a goal or at the wheel of a Formula 3 car when it makes that vital overtake, through untethered VR headsets and tablets, seamlessly synced with the main TV screen.

We will show premier sports footage including Premier League football provided by Sky and Formula 3 4K HDR footage provided by Ericsson, to illustrate different applications of how the technology can be used to complement a traditional broadcast view.

Together, Sky, Ericsson and Tiledmedia will show how the future consumer experience will change with the technology advances of VR (360 video) and how these technologies will truly make content come to life.

Harmonic – 1.B20

At the booth of our partner-from-day-one Harmonic, and working with Viaccess-Orca and Digital Immersion, we’ll show tiled streaming to an untethered head-mounted device (Gear VR) and a flat screen (Android tablet). Sit between the host and the guest in a talk show, watch a tennis match at the edge of a court, or go on stage while Blue Man Group performs!

Viaccess-Orca – 1.A51

As another long-time partner, Viaccess-Orca has integrated our ClearVR SDK in a number of products. Together, we will show two demos:

Viaccess-Orca’s completely revamped Virtual Arena app, a clean and attractive VR environment that lets users watch sports matches on a huge virtual screen. The Oculus/Android app allows these users to start fully immersive 360 views and supports social VR features.
An Oculus/Android app that integrates immersive video with equally immersive audio. Both audio and video are of the highest quality, and both can be represented and transported very efficiently. This complete package is supported on today’s VR devices; a joint offering with DTS – see below.

DTS – 15.MS10 and Novotel Suite

The demo involves integrating high quality VR video with great immersive audio, and it’s a joint effort with Viaccess-Orca, and we’ll show the same demo – see above.