All XR articles
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News
IBC2023 Social Impact Awards: Shortlist Highlights Innovation and Groundbreaking Social Projects
Transformational technologies that are taking the industry in new directions, such as software and services and also equality and sustainability initiatives are both key areas for the IBC Innovation and Social Impact Awards shortlist.
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Industry Trends
5G gets its place in the sun at IBC
IBC created the Accelerator programme to support the media and entertainment technology sector with a framework for agile and collaborative innovation. One of the key focus areas is new creative, production and distribution opportunities with 5G.
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Industry Trends
The Metaverse – Dead or Alive?
The metaverse continues to be all things to all men, as the saying goes. Incorporating everything from VR to gaming, virtual worlds to IoT, and layering on AI and blockchain, it’s no wonder that the appeal is considerable, but real-world success (and indeed definition) has been lacking to date. Mark ...
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Industry Trends
IBC Launches 2023 Innovation and Social Impact Awards Programmes
Nominations are now open for the prestigious IBC2023 Awards, which honour the highest achievements in innovation and social impact.
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Industry Trends
NAB 2023 Review: Evolution not Revolution
NAB 2023 has been and gone again for this year, the bellwether Las Vegas broadcast tradeshow now celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Mark Mayne rounds up the highpoints and key trends.
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Industry Trends
Next-generation XR content: The technical challenges
Technology consistently offers new ways for video to be made and consumed. AI and XR are two of the new frontiers currently rolling out fresh pathways to be explored.
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Industry Trends
NAB 2023 Preview: If Cloud Is The Answer, What Is The Question?
Cloud economics, AI disruption, environmental action and Xtended Reality are the big themes to watch at NAB 2023, writes Adrian Pennington
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Industry Trends
IBC2023 Accelerators: Final Eight Projects Revealed
Eight projects have been announced which will unite game-changing media companies and cutting-edge technology partners for this year’s IBC Media Innovation Programme, writes Sheryl Hickey.
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Daily News
Accedo buys eyecandylab
Accedo acquired the assets of eyecandylab, a provider of extended reality (XR) solutions.
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Industry Trends
MWC 2023 Preview: 5G, Sustainability and revenue models
As the telecoms industry convenes in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC), it has more than a few headaches to resolve, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry Trends
IBC2023 Accelerators: Kickstarter Day highlights the value of collaboration
The IBC2023 Accelerators programme has got underway in earnest, following the annual ‘Kickstart’ day on Feb 8th. The event saw a select group of industry leaders come together to hear the ‘longlist’ of pitches for inclusion in the 2023 Accelerator programme, prefaced with introductory presentations and culminating in the Awards ...
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Industry Trends
Virtual Production: A business case for better data use
The sharp ascendancy of virtual production has been a defining industry success story, but with issues around recruitment and the increasing pressure on efficient data management, there are many future challenges, writes David Davies.
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Video
Technical papers: XR and avatars
IBC2022: Our first paper describes a system for encoding and synthesising facial movements, which are then superimposed on either a realistic or chosen “face” (it can also synthesise those movements from audio speech). Everyone has become very familiar with video-conferencing over the last two years, both professionally and socially – ...
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Video
Accelerator - 5G and the arena of the future for XR events
IBC2022: The first of two 5G-themed Accelerator projects demonstrates how the winning combo of 5G and XR (Extended Realities) have truly pushed 5G’s low latency and connectivity into a bespoke 3D arena-verse of the future, including multi-location, multi-player AR techno-sports and fan hyper-personalisation with 3D advertising using immersive, real-time technologies, ...
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News
Quest Pro VR headset launched – amps up mixed-reality
The Quest Pro VR headset has been announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The new device will cost $1,500 and start shipping on October 25.
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Video
Demo: Introducing Wolvic - a new browser which picks-up where Firefox Reality leaves off
IBC2022: XR (eXtended Reality, an umbrella term for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and similar technologies) systems have advanced significantly recently: experiencing them today is eye-opening. Mozilla invested heavily in XR R&D in the late 2010s, and in late 2018 they released an experimental browser called Firefox Reality. It was a ...
