Military Application Resilience
Emulating real-world network conditions to verify applications & systems
Overcoming network challenges in virtual and augmented reality.
Shaping immersive realities
Amidst the rapid advancement of virtual and augmented reality, a crucial challenge emerges: network performance. VR and AR technologies have the potential to transform industries from gaming to healthcare, but to be successful the networks upon which they rely need to enable the delivery of a seamless experience.
Exploring the critical role of network adaptability is key to enhancing XR’s usability. Real-world networks, upon which XR relies, will always experience variable conditions such as latency and this will influence the experience of the end user. Understanding the impact of these conditions however, on devices and applications, provides insight to inform the optimal network design for reliability and deployment success.
Optimising cloud offloading, ensuring network reliability, and innovating XR hardware.
Key considerations for successful XR network deployment
To successfully deploy XR networks, it is essential to address several key considerations. Cloud offloading is a cornerstone of XR optimization, enabling complex data processing in immersive environments by leveraging cloud computing. This approach significantly reduces the hardware burden on headsets, allowing for more streamlined and user-friendly designs. However, achieving the optimal balance in network design is crucial to fully harness these benefits and avoid shifting the strain to end users.
Equally important is ensuring reliability in the face of network impairments. Variability in network conditions can severely disrupt real-time experiences, making consistent performance a critical requirement. Understanding and mitigating these fluctuations is key to delivering seamless interactions. Furthermore, as XR hardware evolves, the integration of cloud offloading must be carefully managed to prevent adverse effects on user experience, highlighting the need for precise coordination between hardware innovation and network infrastructure.
Replicate complete XR experiences with calnex network emulation
Using Calnex network emulation equips you to launch your XR application, device, or network confidently, ensuring smooth user experiences from day one. By emulating real network conditions; latency, jitter, and bandwidth throttling, you can test against a variety of scenarios, including those that cause failures and that impact customer satisfaction. This enables early detection and fixing of network-related issues, enabling network reliability, and enhancing user experience at all times.
Calnex Network Emulation solutions, NE-ONE and SNE provide scalable network emulation solutions with support up to 400GbE.
Ensuring seamless immersive experiences through application & network testing.
Network emulation use cases for extended reality
Pre deployment – test real world scenarios pre deployment
Create fully automated test plans, ensuring your device and applications withstand not just ideal, but all network conditions. Create real-world scenarios and impairments from packet loss to jitter and pre-emptively refine your performance, enhancing user experience across the board, and solidifying your reputation from day one.
Emulating motion-to-photon latency: repeatable & controllable test environments.
When cloud offloading is utilised for processing, networks become at risk of motion-to-photon latency. If this exceeds 20ms, and the immersion is lost or delayed, this can cause motion sickness for the end user, potentially posing the risk of long-term health effects for frequent users.
Emulate different levels of latency to provide insight into potential cyber sickness triggers caused by variable conditions. Understanding this before deployment, allows for mitigations to be put in place to ensure a smoother and safer XR user experience.
Post deployment: optimization, bug patches & solving live performance issues
Accurately replicate the conditions under which user issues occur. This enables precise, step-by-step recreation of real-world scenarios, facilitating swift identification and resolution of any encountered problems, thereby enhancing ongoing performance and user satisfaction.
Testing and optimising XR devices for all network conditions.
Your guide to ensuring resilience of XR devices under any network conditions
Test and measurement products for XR
