Live streaming to VR Headsets

What is Live streaming?

Live Streaming is a streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet, without first being recorded and stored. Live streaming solutions have proven to be quite useful for businesses in the currently video-dominated community. Live streaming is excellent for live events, breaking news, sports, and political speeches, among other things. Many companies use live streaming engines to broadcast digital conferences, seminars, and many more other events.

How VR Videos are being created?

There are several methods to generate a simulated or virtual environment. One of them is using a camera rig like a capture rig or using a 360-degree camera like Ricoh Theta S, z1, Kodak SP360, etc. The other method is creating a virtual world using 3D graphics. This software can be a 3D computer graphics tool in which designers can create any virtual scenes or environments. This scene could be about anything, it could be Jurassic World or Disney Land. 

Ricoh Theta Z1

How to play live streaming to VR headsets

Ant media server supports Live or VoD 360 Video, moreover it also supports adaptive streaming for 360 Degree Videos. To enable the 360 video player, you need to pass the streaming URL parameter. The camera such as Ricoh Theta is a 360° camera that can live stream 4K video to many of the VR headsets, such as HTC Vive, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, and Google Daydream. This creates a virtual experience using a live camera feed. When the user turns their head in the VR headset, the live streaming feed displayed in the headset transformations as well.

Use cases of live Video Streaming

Following is a summary of some of the use cases of live video streaming features:

1. Entertainment: Entertainment events like beauty pageants, the Oscars, and sporting events are all now can live-streamed on your VR headsets.
2. Multiplayer Gaming: Streaming gameplay involves sharing the games you play and your reactions in real-time with a remote audience.
3. Sports: Sports have become a primary area of VR development by leagues and distribution affiliates who are exploring the delivery of 4K immersive viewing experiences. VR coverage was beginning to appear intermittently in most major sports and was prominently featured during the 2018 Winter Olympics and the FIFA World Cup.
4. Social Media: People go live on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn to get instant feedback and to create an intimate connection.
5. Training & Education: Streaming technology enables educators to bring subjects and events from around the world, like an animal sanctuary or zoo for instance, into their classrooms, which can create interesting learning experiences.
6. Healthcare: Live streaming solutions for the healthcare industry have proven to be beneficial in terms of delivering quick and easy remote checkups through virtual platforms.

Live Streaming of Concerts in VR Headset