This week, Unity, the leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, announced a new partnership with Vagon, a 3D content streaming expert. This partnership will leverage Vagon’s advancements in AR/VR/MR streaming to increase accessibility to XR immersive experiences and applications across a wide range of end devices.
To experience high-quality and sophisticated XR experiences, headsets sometimes have to meet high technical requirements to operate optimally.
However, a common solution for leveraging high-performance experiences is PC streaming, where processing power is offloaded to a secondary computing device to wirelessly stream 3D content to the headset—a prime example is Quest 2’s Airlink.
For enterprises and other sectors, streaming XR content is much more accessible than using expensive XR headsets, which can sometimes be large and expensive.
Marketers and leaders like Meta are also exploring ways to make XR head-mounted devices seamless and advance new hardware like smart glasses. Streaming technologies mixed with edge computing, cloud, and 5G create a bridge to ubiquity, allowing vendors to build smaller devices that stream content wirelessly instead of rendering it on-device.
This carries even more weight as telecommunications and networking companies are working with XR leaders to enhance wireless connectivity in certain areas. For example, Orange is enhancing connectivity during the Tour de France event and supporting the AR broadcast of the event led by XREAL. Meanwhile, companies like Samsung are planning to introduce smart glasses, which can leverage the company’s extensive smartphone portfolio. Apple is already doing this with its Vision Pro.
So, when considering the context surrounding the future of XR and form factors, readers should pay attention to RT3D content streaming groups and partnerships like the Unity/Vagon collaboration, as the technology could be a key step toward adoption of XR devices.
More about Unity Vagon partnership
The Unity partnership allows Vagon to distribute its Vagon Streams solution as a “Unity Verified Solution,” which allows the service to be integrated into the Unity Editor SDK as a native RT3D streaming application.
Vagon argues that the value of RT3D content streaming will only increase as AI advances and the creation of high-definition XR experiences accelerates.
The Unity-supported Vagon Streams solution provides low-latency services for 3D content streaming, including enterprise uses such as architectural visualization projects, product configurators, virtual worlds, and automotive design workflows.
Prior to the Unity partnership, Vargo joined the rich NVIDIA ecosystem through a collaboration that provided Vagon with the latest NVIDIA hardware to understand 3D streaming across a range of end devices.