Free Viewpoint
Huawei worked with Hunan TV and Arcvideo to enrich the VOD content of "Dance Smash", a popular dance show in China. All parties pooled their skills to provide end users with immersive viewing experience of the dances, making it perfect diversified content for audiences of all ages.
Users can enjoy performances from any angle using the free viewpoint, capturing the most touching moments on the stage. This new interactive service shortens the distance between users and videos, and gives users a free control over the 3D visual experience.
The bit rate of free-view videos is usually higher than 30 Mbit/s due to controllability and smooth display requirements. In addition, multiple consecutive video segments need to be delivered at the moment of rotation, increasing the instantaneous bit rate by 4 to 5 times. 4G networks are insufficient to handle these workloads, leading to a high probability that frame freezing. Conversely, data transmitted on a 5G network ensures images are delivered clearly and vividly.
China Unicom joins Huawei and China Sports (Zhibo.tv) to provide the 5G live streaming of the 2019 ITTF World Tour held in Zhengzhou. The parties combine their leading technologies such as free-view, 4K ultra-HD, and VR to provide the Wo Video 5G platform that allows users to enjoy immersive concerts and sports games, even at home.
The live sports streaming industry is hugely competitive, providing the latest live streaming for improved visual experience. A long-standing argument is why NBA broadcast is better than CBA. Now, with free viewpoint, UHD, and VR technologies, everyone can be the director of their favorite game.
Free viewpoint: A stadium deploys 20 Huawei cameras, allowing the audience to switch angles on demand and watch player's performance in detail. 4K UHD: Multiple 4K cameras help provide UHD panoramic images. VR view: Three VR cameras are added near the table tennis table to deliver a 360-degree visual experience.
Huawei cooperates with China Telecom and Zou Xuan Sports to achieve the world's first commercial use of 5G and 360-degree free-view technologies for online boxing matches. The event fully reproduces the enjoyment of boxing matches, enriching the online entertainment during the pandemic.
With cutting-edge 5G, 4K, and VR technologies, the free-view "Fight to the End" boxing matches were available online for over five months in 2020. This new boxing program aims to harness excellent talents in China professional boxing, representing the birth of a new business.
Industry partners China Telecom and Huawei provide an end-to-end solution that delivers a premium sporting experience. This complete solution leverages free viewpoint and a high-bandwidth and low-latency 5G network that covers frontend shooting, onsite preprocessing, cloud computing, CDN distribution, as well as video platform and mobile devices for the free-view live broadcast. The solution optimizes every key component to ensure an optimal 360-degree broadcast for any sporting event.
VR
Shandong Mobile, Migu, Shandong Luneng Taishan Football Club, China Sports Media company, and Huawei jointly completed the first 5G MEC-based smart stadium. This solution provides edge production services for ultra-wide angle, 180°, and 360° VR modes for live broadcasts, promoting the production efficiency, reducing production costs, and improving fan's experience.
Multiple UHD cameras are deployed onsite to shoot videos at different locations. Real-time video is transmitted to the MEC edge node of Jinan Mobile and the Beijing event production center through the 5G wireless network, enabling UHD video collection, production, and broadcast anytime and anywhere. Edge production services for ultra-wide angle VR, 180° VR, and 360° panoramic VR live broadcast are provided from a nearby location using video stitching, transcoding, and distribution from MEC edge nodes and extensive content production tools.
Onsite audiences only need to install a smart stadium app on their mobile phone or VR device to watch games and highlights from multiple angles. They can zoom in or out on demand, and view various real-time game streams or HD short video clips. What's more, it is easy to edit and create your own social short videos.
CCTV, China Telecom, Huawei, and Insta360 worked together to provide 24/7, real-time VR live broadcasts of the construction sites of two hospitals, Huoshenshan and Leishenshan. Users could view the progress of each construction site on their mobile phones using VR services.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, China commissioned the construction of Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals, similar to Xiaotangshan SARS hospitals in the 2000's. This created an interest in online "cloud supervisors", which are normal citizens who watch the frontline progress via the 24-hour VR live broadcasts.
This live broadcast technology provides 360° immersive experience of the real environment, shortening the distance between tens of millions of netizens and the construction site to within one second. It also helps to stop rumors or fake information from spreading online.
With the help of Huawei's 5G and 8K FOV technologies, Guangdong Telecom and Guangdong Museum unlocked a new online experience for visiting museums. Simply by wearing VR glasses, users could visit the full exhibition of the Longmen Grottoes, as well as over 10 national treasures.
For China Telecom (Guangdong) users using e-Cloud VR client, VR glasses offer new ways to visit a museum, enjoy historic stories, and see national relics, all in the comfort of your home.
Unlike a traditional VR helmet for PC, the easy-to-use China Telecom devices, such as VR Glass and VR headsets, feature an ultra-thin body. For the network, China Telecom builds a full-fibre bearer solution to provide indoor and outdoor gigabit broadband networks using 5G, ensuring optimal cloud VR services. The cloud-edge synergy computing platform of China Telecom ensures the use of large cloud VR applications.
Guangdong Telecom, together with Huawei and a music organization in Guangzhou, conducted VR recording and live broadcast test in a bar. Guangdong Telecom delivers an immersive bar over the cloud by providing diversified music TV content and local performance. The solution is dedicated to helping folk artists produce and promote online VR content at low costs.
The music organization is a community comprising local clubs that support local musicians. During the pandemic, Guangdong Telecom and the organization joined Huawei and 21CN company to organize performances in the form of VR live broadcast and VOD.
The unique cloud-network convergence of Guangdong Telecom provides users with multi-angle viewpoints of the performances, offering users an immersive experience of ballad music.
Guangdong Telecom and Guangdong Science Center use Huawei 5G, gigabit private line, and 8K FOV technologies to achieve a live, VR, and panoramic option of online teaching. The customers use the e-Cloud VR platform resources to effectively plan scientific education activities, such as the VR tours of the technology center.
"How does a car engine work?", "What is the spacesuit made of?". These common questions can be solved by science experiments using VR devices, allowing kids to learn, use, and play with science at home.
Cloud VR brings the concepts of cloud computing and rendering to VR service applications. The video and audio output from the cloud are encoded, compressed, and transmitted to users' devices over the high-speed and stable network, ensuring VR content is moved and rendered on the cloud. The 8K VR video uses the ultra-large bandwidth and ultra-low latency of 5G technology to ensure smooth video data transmission and clear voice without frame freezing, achieving ultimate and immersive user experience.
Multi-View
Huawei cooperates with 4kgarden.com, telecom carriers, and other partners to broadcast the UHD Online Concert for two nights. The live concert sets a precedent with 5G speeds, 4K resolution, VR functions, and multi-view features, providing users with true-to-life concert in the comfort of their homes.
The "Live in House" UHD online live concert was a true-to-life live concert running on TVs, mobile phones, and VR devices. It features 4K UHD, 8K VR, and multi-view technologies to provide quality viewing over two nights. With these new technologies and forms, the music industry is actively moving offline concerts to the Internet. In the future, "cloud concerts" will become the norm for online entertainment.
5G can be used for UHD backhaul of live broadcast to accelerate onsite deployment. The combination of 5G, cloud, AI, and edge computing can greatly reduce the latency in UHD video processing, rendering, and producing. Likewise, it offers new opportunities for broadcasting and non-linear editing over the cloud, as well as 2D-to-3D conversion services.