Airtel Demonstrates Immersive Video Entertainment On 5G; Recreates Kapil Dev’s 175 Not Out Innings

Bharti Airtel has supplied a preview of its 5G community prowess by recreating one of the talked-about occasions from the 1983 Cricket World Cup. While India emerged winners of the event, Kapil Dev’s record-breaking 175 not-out innings towards Zimbabwe has stood out as a defining second in India’s cricket historical past. The purpose being that there isn’t any footage of this specific match as a result of a strike by TV technicians on the time. That is, till now.

Using cutting-edge know-how, the telecom large dropped at life key moments from the match in ‘175 Replayed’ video. Around 50 concurrent customers got the chance to get pleasure from a extremely personalised 4K expertise of the match on 5G smartphones. Connected to a reside Airtel 5G trial community, they’d entry to speeds of over 1 Gbps and latency of lower than 20 milliseconds. This gave them real-time entry to a 360-degree view of the stadium, shot stats, and evaluation, which boosted their expertise additional.

Sharing his ideas on the occasion, Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel, stated, “The gigabit speeds and millisecond latency of 5G will transform the way we consume entertainment. With today’s demonstration, we have only scratched the surface of the infinite possibilities of 5G and highly personalized immersive experiences in the digital world.”

The first-of-its-kind expertise additionally featured an Airtel 5G powered hologram of Kapil Dev, which interacted with followers and took them via vital moments from the sport in real-time.

Talking about his expertise, the cricket icon stated, “I am simply amazed by the power of 5G technology and seeing my digital avatar interact with my fans as if I am actually there. Thank you, Airtel, for this wonderful effort and bringing to life one of the most important innings of my career.”

Randeep Sekhon added, “With 5G based holograms, we will be able to transport virtual avatars to any location, and this will be a game-changer for meetings and conferences, LIVE news, and will have so many other use cases. Airtel is fully prepared for 5G in this emerging digital world and is building a solid pipeline of innovative use cases for India. We also take this opportunity to thank the Department of Telecom for giving us the trial spectrum to validate our technology and use cases.”

The demonstration was carried out at Airtel’s Network Experience Center in Manesar (Gurugram) utilizing 5G in NSA mode, over 3500 MHz band take a look at spectrum, allotted by the Department of Telecom, Government of India. It offered an perception into how 5G may change the panorama of video leisure sooner or later. It additionally presents an concept of the ability of Airtel’s 5G community as soon as it has been rolled out commercially.

This is the most recent in a number of 5G trials that Airtel has held over the past 12 months. In its try and drive the adoption of the know-how, the corporate has held a number of reside demonstrations in places throughout India. Last 12 months, it hosted a singular Cloud Gaming expertise on a reside Airtel 5G community and launched the #5GforBusiness initiative. Airtel has additionally joined forces with a lot of know-how corporations and types to check 5G based mostly options for enterprises.

Disclaimer: 5G Demo based mostly on trial spectrum given by Department of Telecom.