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whitePaper | February 14, 2020

After two decades of talk, hype around potential enterprise applications of VR is finally converting into investment. Researcher IDC says global spending on VR and augmented reality (AR), is expected to hit $160 billion in 2023, up significantly from the $16.8 billion forecast for 2019. The researcher predicts the five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for AR/VR spending will be 78.3%, and that a significant portion of this growth in spending will come from the commercial and public sectors.

whitePaper | June 10, 2022

In 2021, the media & entertainment industry saw continued changes from technological progress, evolving generational behaviors, and ongoing impacts from the global pandemic. Amid recurring COVID-19 surges, people sought more media & entertainment at home, while often avoiding larger in-person events.1 Digital media engagement even remained strong over the healthier summer, evidence that the pandemic has only accelerated preexisting trends toward the digital world.

whitePaper | August 29, 2022

Since blockchain came into existence, several distributed ledger technologies have been developed for various purposes. Starting with the basic architecture, several modified versions such as Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), distributed hash table (DHT), Time To Live (TTL), decentralised applications (dApps) etc have entered the blockchain ecosystem. However, as with every new technology, blockchain comes with unique challenges and technical issues

whitePaper | July 25, 2022

In the history of technology, truly groundbreaking developments become household names. For the last decade, people have been using ‘Google’ as a verb, asking whether or not there is an app, and saying ‘post’ when they mean publish online. Blockchain technology led to the most famous acronym in a generation: NFT or Non-fungible Token. Now, combined with Virtual Reality (VR) units, the same technology has created two more increasingly popular neologisms: metaverse and web3

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

As part of the ongoing transition to Internet Protocol (IP) networks for media workflows, the media and entertainment industry has developed new IP standards for transporting broadcast signals. This white paper offers guidance to help broadcasters and media organizations transition to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions when using the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP infrastructure. It provides details explaining why organizations transition from traditional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows using SMPTE 2110 standards and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, and clocking, including relevant standards to support uncompressed contribution. It also provides details around Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) registration and discovery on an IP network.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Metaverse as a concept has been around for many years. Currently, it is a big part of the gaming eco-system. The recent re-branding of Facebook to Meta, has generated considerable interest in other industries as well. Also, there is now a renewed interest in it because the availability of affordable AR/VR (augment reality / virtual reality) devices and DLT’s (Distributed ledger technologies) solvesome long standing problems of the Metaverse.This paper brings out those synergies between Metaverse and DLT’s.