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Advanced Systems Group, Supersphere partnership

Advanced Systems Group, a technology and services provider for media creatives and content owners, and Supersphere, a performance engineering company for creators, have announced a strategic partnership that will drive innovation in cloud production and XR (extended reality) technology. This collaboration will leverage ASG’s strengths in cloud production technology and integration alongside Supersphere’s expertise in […]

June 11, 2024

Report: 5G yet to achieve full potential

The features and functionality of 5G-Advanced means the technology is primed for enterprise – but only if mobile operators can consider its applications and turn use cases into practical solutions. This is according to a report commissioned by InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and development company, and written by market research firm ABI […]

November 15, 2023

BT launches testbed to develop immersive experiences

BT Group has launched a new testbed to develop and trial immersive experiences in the areas of work, home, health and entertainment. Inviting technology partners and customers to collaborate, the testbed brings together enabling technologies with EE’s 5G network and private 5G networks. It will explore how new capabilities such as network exposure functions, cloud-rendering […]

October 3, 2023

Google Cloud rolls out Immersive Stream for XR

Last year at Google I/O, the company previewed Immersive Stream for XR, which leverages Google Cloud GPUs to host, render, and stream photorealistic experiences to millions of mobile devices. Google has announced that the service is now generally available for Google Cloud customers. With Immersive Stream for XR, users don’t need powerful hardware or a […]

February 9, 2023

Study: 5G-Advanced to boost wireless networks

Trade body 5G Americas has published a study, Becoming 5G-Advanced: the 3GPP 2025 Roadmap, which explores major enhancements in Artificial Intelligence, extended reality and beyond in 3GPP Release 18. “The work done by 3GPP in Release 17 improved 5G New Radio (NR) by adding support for new services, reduced-capability user equipment, non-terrestrial networks, frequency bands […]

December 8, 2022By Colin Mann

Ericsson in UK 6G research programme

Comms technologist Ericsson is to establish a new research unit in the UK as part of a multi-million-pound investment to boost the country’s future wireless connectivity capabilities. Tens of millions of pounds (GBP) will be invested by Ericsson over the next 10 years in a UK-based programme that will focus on 6G research and breakthrough […]

November 22, 2022By Colin Mann

Study: 5G brings enhanced connectivity to XR

Extended Reality (XR), an umbrella term for Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), will be the next-generation computing platform which aims to create virtual experiences indistinguishable from reality, according to a study, Extended Reality and 3GPP Evolution, from trade body 5G Americas. “XR will greatly influence the way people play, work, […]

November 18, 2022