Converge sets sights on cloud gaming

CONVERGE ICT Solutions Inc. is diversifying its business through its planned venture into cloud gaming and virtual reality. Dennis Anthony H. Uy, the company’s CEO, said the group has already started its foray into the gaming industry by partnering with content providers.

“We have started with some gaming partners already with some content. In the future, we might venture into virtual reality and cloud gaming,” he said at the sidelines of Ookla’s awarding ceremonies on Thursday, where Converge bagged four titles.

Cloud gaming, also known as gaming on demand or gamingas-a-service, is a type of online gaming where the processing power required to run games is provided by remote servers hosted on the cloud.

Instead of running games on a local device like a console or PC, cloud gaming allows players to stream games over the internet directly to their devices, such as smartphones, tablets, smart Tvs, or computers.

This eliminates the need for highend hardware specifications on the user’s device since the game processing is handled remotely.

Meanwhile, virtual reality gaming is a type of gaming experience that immerses players in a computer-generated virtual environment, where they can interact with the digital world and experience a heightened sense of presence and immersion.

vr gaming typically involves wearing a vr headset that tracks the user’s head movements and position, allowing them to look around and navigate within the virtual environment.

These types of games require high volumes of data to be processed in servers typically housed in data centers.

Uy said Converge plans to build three data centers in the Philippines-one in Pamapanga, another in Caloocan, and one in Laguna.

“They are coming up. They have a capacity of more or less 16MW,” he said.

The company was recently hailed as the local provider with the “Best Internet Gaming Experience.”