TEC Pre-Commercial Trial – Bloom City Trial

Enabling low latency extended reality (XR) services and applications on multiple MNO edge networks

In this demo application, the XR streaming solution delivers a real-time multiplayer experience featuring hyper-realistic, personalized digital assistants that lead app users on a guided tour of Bonn, Germany or Tokyo, Japan. The digital tour guide and virtual, interactive billboard advertisements are overlaid atop the user’s real world view.

Trial Concept

Harmonized Low Latency XR Enabling Services and Applications on Multiple Operator Edge Networks

To provide the best user experience, next generation mobile applications like XR require close proximity to support APIs and SDKs in backend code, and deliver the quality of experience and scale that mobile application users demand.

To address that requirement, there’s a growing need for consistent APIs and cloud services to be deployed within MNO edge networks to support these next generation applications in an easy and consistent way. For MNOs, the challenge is speed, scale and collaboration. Today, MNOs cannot benefit from each other’s complementary market development, especially in the area of discovering new “in-network” services that will be required to power the next generation of apps and solutions.

Footprint

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and fast 5G for streaming rich cloud rendered interactive content and instant localization with Visual Positioning Service (VPS)

Objective of the trial

Prove the ability to achieve cross-region, cross-operator availability of homogeneous enabler APIs and services powered by telco edge computing for XR

Validate the benefit of telco edge for XR enabling services

5G XR MEC PaaS Trial by KDDI, DT, MobiledgeX, Sturfee, Mawari

Concept:
Easy and consistent way of developing XR applications and deploying to global Multiple Operator MECs

Teaming up:
Operator MECs – DT in Germany and KDDI in Japan
Platform – MobiledgeX
Application – Sturfee (VPS) and Mawari (3D/XR Streaming)

Launched in June 2021, as part of GSMA TEC Trials initiatives:
Press-release on 29 June 2021 (MWC)

Preliminary results and demonstration video released:

Press-release on 26 October 2021 (MWC LA) with TEC Forum presentation on 18 November 2021

Final results: To be shared at TEC Forum Open Session on 10 March 2022

Acceleration of global edge-enabled XR application development

PaaS providing XR core techs (VPS and XR-streaming) as API/SDK

KDDI’s au VISION STUDIO created a super photo-realistic 3DCG character “coh” which looks like real humans

-> Rendering requires huge computing resources and cloud based processing on top of 5G edge NW is essential to realize ultra-low latency interactive UXs.

MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud platform provides unified access to 5G edge networks jointly provided by KDDI and Deutsche Telekom

TEC Trial Results

Global PaaS for edge-enabled XR techs successfully completed!

Next Steps / Future Plans

-> Accelerate the fusion of Virtual/Real worlds with 5G and MEC

Demonstration Video

About Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) Pre-Commercial Trials

The GSMA Foundry brings the industry together to collaborate around a number of pre-commercial trials of Telco Edge Cloud capabilities with app developers and service providers, sponsored by the industry partners and supported by MNOs. Find out more about the trials at gsma.com/FutureNetworks.