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New Report Reveals Critical Innovation and Standardization Enabling XR Experiences
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As new devices entice the consumer XR market, a new white paper commissioned by InterDigital, Inc.
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[{"type":"text","content":"WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As new devices entice the consumer XR market, a new white paper commissioned by InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and development company, and written by market research firm ABI Research, details the standards, solutions, and emerging challenges shaping new extended reality (XR) opportunities. The report, “Defining the XR Experience: Enabling the Immersivity Ecosystem,” introduces the strong foundation of wireless and video innovation that underpin the spectrum of XR experiences, including AR, VR, and MR, and stresses the importance of standards to ensure compatibility and combat technology fragmentation across the various devices, networks, and systems that empower XR experiences. While consumer adoption of XR headsets and services has been relatively slow, the report points to improvements in device hardware, content capture, encoding, and XR-specific content distribution capabilities as critical components to fuel future growth of the XR market. Seamless immersive XR experiences depend on a variety of factors, including headsets equipped to process high resolution, high framerate, multi-view content, and spatial audio, and a network capable of meeting XR’s low latency and high reliability demands. Among the existing standalone, tethered, and mobile-based solutions for VR devices, not all headsets are able to host compute capabilities within the device. Most require rendering to be split across the network, often imposing delays and other hinderances to truly immersive experiences. Recently introduced devices like the Apple Vision Pro have shown improvements in haptics, eye tracking, and other metrics of accuracy that enhance the immersive experiences that devices can provide. “Today’s XR capabilities are forged from innovations in wireless and multimedia that enable us to capture audio, video, haptic, and kinesthetic data into one scene representation and transmit that complex XR traffic across our networks to achieve a seamless blend of our physical and virtual worlds,” said Rajesh Pankaj, CTO, InterDigital. “These new “realities” would be impossible without long-term research and contributions to standards from companies like InterDigital, which help improve network capabilities, evolve compression techniques, and ensure the interop...