Vodacom to show off 5G at the July

KEEN TO SHOW OFF WIRELESS TECHNO

Guests will get a feed from the parade ring and another from the finish line.

Vodacom – like rival MTN – is keen to show off the capabilities of 5G wireless broadband technology. The company will use today’s Durban July to showcase its capabilities.

The operator has partnered with Nokia to demonstrate virtual reality through two 5G-powered “experiences” at the horseracing.

The first VR experience will showcase the high speed and low latency of 5G and will use 4K video cameras to record and stream live, immersive footage from two different positions at the Greyville racecourse at the event.

Each of these cameras will broadcast a live, 360-degree feed over 5G back to the Vodacom hospitality suite, where guests will be able to experience the feeds from the racecourse through VR headsets.

The first camera has been positioned in the Parade Ring, which will allow guests in the suite to have a live, virtual view of the horses as they are paraded before each race.

The second camera has been positioned at the finish line, allowing guests to watch the finish of each race in VR, as if they were at the finish line themselves.

The images from the cameras will be streamed in real time over a Nokia Airscale 5G base station, using 100MHz of test spectrum in the 28GHz frequency band.

No commercial 5G spectrum licences have been issued in South Africa.

This article was first published on TechCentral.

Picture: Bloomberg TECH SAVVY. Durban July guests can look forward to the latest in technology today. Latency is the time gap that exists between a request and a response in a system, which is typically around 20milliseconds on a 4G network. On a 5G network, this is...