14Jul
How 5G Enhances VR Experience? 5G has been associated with the possibility of new digital applications and services that accompany a hyper-connected life . We've seen how this new technology, which permits "perfect" connectivity, adds additional value to both consumers and enterprises. The global pandemic is having a significant impact on our daily lives, and the importance of new emerging technologies and services are increasing as a result. For example, we've noticed an uptick in demand for communication services, remote collaboration tools, and efficient and consistent data access — whether from the workplace, home, or both. In this new digital reality, VR is a technology concept that offers significant benefits. In industries like manufacturing, gaming, media, automotive, and healthcare, this technology brings up new methods of working, allowing for better productivity as well as entirely new user experiences. VR applications also provide service providers with new business models and opportunities. These new use cases are being brought to life by the combination of 5G access networks, high-performance distributed 5G core capabilities, and new devices. 5G expedites the Virtual Reality revolution!! Starting with 1G and progressing to 4G and now 5G, the telecom industry has always evolved to take advantage of the latest, better technologies as they become accessible. In fact, 5G will hasten the pace of technological adoption. Immersive technology, such as VR, is a key component in enabling 5G use cases and business models, as well as contributing to the high performance, high-capacity, high reliability, and low latency associated with 5G, all delivered at a low total cost of ownership (TCO). This combination of improved performance and reduced TCO is critical in dealing with incremental growth in data traffic. 5G empowers Virtual Reality experiences Immersive experiences have enabled VR that has transformed the way we consume and interact with content, both as consumers and businesses. Creating VR experiences, on the other hand, does not come without technical challenges. To combine and synchronise the real world and user movements with the digital world a huge number of visual processes are required. Because graphics highly require extensive rendering, on-device processes are supplemented by distributing workloads between the AR/VR device and the edge cloud. A fast and reliable 5G connection is required to deliver a final experience to the user. VR applications require strong network requirements including low latency, high reliability and high bandwidth. It's no secret that there's a surge in interest in virtual reality. Mordor Intelligence predicts that between 2020 and 2026, the value of VR will rise from $17.25 billion to around $184.66 billion, representing significant growth. 5G is possibly the smartest infrastructure for virtual worlds and represents a new boundary for VR. Perks of 5G for Virtual Reality Virtual reality is capable of transforming the world. Especially in this post-pandemic era, VR denotes a risk-free way to be "present" with friends and colleagues. Virtual reality ecosystems can serve as hotspots for safe collaboration and interaction. These tools also open the door to new degrees of creativity, without any of the problems of squandered resources and money. 5G technology promises significantly faster download and upload speeds, greater coverage, and more stable connections. If VR is to continue to evolve, it will demand a more affordable, larger network with lower latency and greater consistency. In simple terms, 5G is a requirement and the future of immersive technology is dependent on it. To run VR applications, many of the VR head-mounted (HMDs) displays require a strong PC. This indicates that your amusement with VR is limited to a specific site. With the introduction of 5G, storage, power consumption, and processing power will be shunned from the PC and into the edge cloud. This means that VR users will only need a headset, allowing VR to be consumed at any time and from any location. The VR solutions today have to deal with a considerable delay between response and request. You will not always reach out to virtual content in real-time and interact with it. The higher the lag, the lower the plunge. 5G can efficiently reduce latency by approximately 10 times and improve data transfer rates. Lower latency equates to an increased responsiveness. The bare minimum for playing non-VR games is 50 milliseconds of latency. In VR, when the latency is over 20 ms, users experience nausea. The impact of reduced latency will drastically affect our way of interacting with virtual experiences. Many of the "VR sickness" problems experienced by individuals today are due to the lag between their body's movements and the response of the VR machine. Less latency results in fewer moments of nausea. The VR experience highly depends on a lot of data moving from one computer system to another. In order for a VR experience to function properly, the data need not just move fast – it needs to prevent congestion which leads to twitchy images or content not being loaded as it ought. VR applications can be attuned to network performance, with interruptions affecting user experience significantly. 5G enhances the data that a system can process at any time, improving the system's reliability and performance. Furthermore, 5G systems are able to handle larger amounts of data more neatly and without any lag or congestion, such as 4K video streams or 8K video. This should make sure that graphics are more immersive and accurate on VR devices. Today's VR companies increasingly test tools to make displays more wealthy than their previous, pixelated counterparts. 5G will facilitate that the stunning sceneries that we can produce in software environments can stream coherently onto Virtual Reality headsets, the result should lead to better, lighter and more comfortable headsets. 5G's functionality supports several VR applications, such as real-time video rendering, shorter download and installation times and expansion of brands and shopping experiences beyond shops. Utilizing 5G in the VR world, users may roam more freely in a virtual environment without worrying about accidentaly leaving a data circle. Regardless, the space a person with a VR Headset may cover still be limited, 5G offers us a greater degree of reliability in digital reality and results in improved mobility. No one wants to deal with the consequences of fluctuation in data connection when companies provide crucial training experiences or collaborate on complex designs, thus disrupting their boundless virtual experience. Furthermore, 5G acts as a catalyst for better virtual reality collaboration. Many organisations have already been looking at virtual reality as a mode to bring teams from different locations around the world together. Regretfully, not every team member will have access to a strong Wi-Fi connection, so that they can actively participate in the VR experience. VR headsets getting increasingly 5G compatible has widened new collaborative possibilities. People who previously had no access to the right data bandwidth to join a VR meeting can now easily enter a virtual environment. This could lay the groundwork for remote team members and specialists to have far better access to a hybrid workplace. 5G will turn the landscape of the VR Developers and designers are looking for further extensive ways to take virtual experiences to the next dimension. Now that companies and individuals alike are becoming more interested in the concept of VR. 5G is just one of the disruptive technologies poised to change the way we interact with virtual environments and it will make the VR environment more accessible to businesses worldwide by improving data streaming capability, lowering latency, and increasing reliability. With the rise of 5G connectivity, some of the major issues that have previously prevented businesses from adopting virtual reality could be resolved. 5G represents a new horizon in the development of virtual reality when combined with other disruptive technologies such as AI and IoT connections.
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05Jul
Tiltlabs Wins Big in Homajam Homies Join Fun Run’s win at Homa Games in the category of Coups De Coeur, Favourite of the Partners is yet another feather in our cap. TILTLABS’s expertise in creating super cool and fun hyper-casual games met with HomaJam’s hunt for the best games and talent around. Homies Join Fun Runs is a hyper-casual game where one can touch the screen to make a homie run and place action cards to make homies jump, dash, shrink and expand them to complete levels, unlocking new homes. TILTLABS creates Hyper-casual games that are lightweight with simple mechanics and minimal design that offer instant gameplay and user engagement. Unlike other genres, which have very specific audiences, hyper-casual games are built for the masses. Hyper-casual games are topping the app store charts being mobile gaming’s most profitable genre. Within half a century, these games have gone from primarily being played for time pass to accumulating revenues of over $100 billion per year. Hyper-casual games are now the most downloaded genre in mobile gaming worldwide, accounting for 31% of all installs, according to data from Sensor Tower. By recent estimates, the gaming industry is on track to double these already impressive numbers by 2023. With competition being high and every developer and publisher wanting to create something in this genre, there have raised some common trends in hyper-casual games lately. Listing some of the most exciting trends we follow here: - Anything and everything is adapted to the hyper-casual genre now Now hyper-casual game developers have a culture of adopting anything and everything to this genre. Being a lightweight game with minimal design and relatively easy to produce, any concept which is likely to attract a mass audience is finding a way to being a hyper-casual game. The trend of feel-good mechanics is what we follow here to create hyper-casual games that engage our players to relax and urges them to take some time out. IP- based games- our newest attraction Hyper casual games backed by a prominent third party are a rising trend seen in latest years. Brands find games as an effective way to better recognition and positioning. Users that are loyal to a brand are more likely to play a game for a longer time and ultimately increasing the retention rates. We create hyper-casual games that can help brands to reach and influence a mass audience, making it not only an opportunity to increase brand awareness and loyalty but also to drive sales both in and outside of the app. Visuals being more realistic Being in a race to attract a mass audience, hyper-casual game developers have been creating visually stimulating creatives that could give them an edge. With a higher number of games available in stores, players tend to choose the game with the most appealing visuals. This has changed the focus of developers to improve the graphics and visual quality of games. Generating unique Hyper casual designs that can crack the download charts is what we are keen on developing here. With their fast development cycles, desirable genre, and profitability for developers and publishers alike, these once-upon-a-time “simple” games are continuing to not only prove that they are here to stay but also their strength and influence in the wider mobile gaming market. Trends in hyper-casual games tend to be small and continue to rise and fall. But this genre is built in such a way that it can easily adapt to changes and evolve. On keeping updated with these changing trends and handy with the right tools to incorporate its unique elements, TILTLABS is one step ahead in staying on top of the hyper-casual game charts. Stewart Rogers, Hyper-Casual Games: Trends and how to reach scale, April 16, 2021, accessed June 8, 2021 http://web.archive.org/web/20210416092755/https://dataconomy.com/2021/04/hyper-casual-games-trends-reach-scale/ Rae Steinbach, The 4 biggest hyper-casual game trends of 2021, accessed June 8, 2021 https://supersonic.com/blog/the-4-biggest-hyper-casual-game-trends-of-2021/
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22Mar
Manufacturing is set for the next era of revolution and XR is going to be the key driver Traditional manufacturing and industrial practices are in the phase of a major transformation spanning the entire manufacturing/production cycle and value creation processes in the name of Industry 4.0. It creates manufacturing systems that are interconnected, communicates, analyse, and use the information to drive further intelligent action. At the heart of this transformation is a combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), and extended reality (XR). Immersive technologies of VR, AR, and MR can be applied across all industries evolving with Industry 4.0, with many of the biggest leaps likely coming from the manufacturing sector, finding a wide range of opportunities in maximizing productivity from maintenance, training, sales & marketing, safety compliance to ensure simplified work procedures from Field Technician Solutions to Marketing Solutions and what not. XR can help developers and engineers communicate during each stage of the design process in real-time, helping the teams stay on the same page, reducing errors that could cost the company, and thereby reducing the product development cycle. XR technologies provide powerful, largely unexplored application areas in Industry 4.0, that will revolutionize the way we work, collaborate, and live our lives.
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22Mar
How Gamification Improves Employee Productivity In this era of work from home and social distancing, don’t you think our employees are less connected with each other and socially inept? Well, we can’t do anything about physical distancing for now, but definitely something about bringing our employees together to “PLAY”!! Games are our employees’ guilty pleasure at work. Could we make them play at work hours to take the guilt apart and enhance productivity? Gamification serves the purpose! The term “Gamification “is bringing in the fun elements of game into their routine work. It uses positive reinforcement to motivate our employees to do their daily tasks. Rewarding the best employee at the end of the month or year-end appraisal is so outdated. What motivates them is instant rewarding for their daily tasks. Gamifying everyday tasks or problems helps to engage our team and motivate them to do well and stay connected. This gives them a heightened sense of purpose in the company and have a clearer idea of their progress or achievements. What they get as the outcome is what they crave the most; a sense of personal achievement and what you get in return is improved productivity and employee engagement on daily basis without having to nose around.
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22Mar
Gamification Can Help Revive the Travel & Tourism Industry Travel and Tourism business, massively hit by the pandemic, is doing all it can to revive back. What needs is an extra nudge to the passionate traveller to stop worrying about safety and hygiene issues and start packing their bags right away. Gamification can be a great method to digitally motivate them to travel with the use of their smartphones, tablets, or other digital devices. How about giving them a chance to make their own personalised virtual avatar to travel around different places and play a game on the go? Gamers can be made to be part of a story where they are to complete weekly tasks, including trivia, referrals, and booking real travel for which they will be rewarded with virtual currency to fund their avatar’s future trips. They can also be given a chance to virtually experience the safety and hygiene measures followed in their place of stay or during the travel and engage the player by giving them simple tasks to practice the same. The traveller’s wanderlust can be used to motivate them to see and experience the places in real. The engaging storyline helps to drive their fears away and give them a glimpse of what they will be experiencing in real life, rather than face the unknown!
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22Mar
Gamification in Healthcare Boosts Positive Health Motivation If you track your calorie intake by logging in your daily diet or counting your daily steps, you are already being gamified. ‘Gamification in healthcare’ is defined generally as the use of game design elements in boosting positive health motivation. Its application in healthcare is much more diverse than just tracking your water and food intake. Not taking their medicines on time is a widespread problem in older patients and children. In the case of life-threatening diseases, it becomes extra important to solve this. A game where the disease is envisioned as a ‘rogue robot’ which has to be defeated using ‘pill guns’ and ‘antibiotic-bomb’ can improve the treatment adherence rates, and also increase the patients’ self-efficacy - confidence that the disease can be defeated. Gamification can also help children forget they are undergoing medical treatment, and teach them responsibility for their health. Games can be made to educate younger hemophilia, diabetics, and cancer patients about the importance of adhering to their treatment plans.
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