First UK 6G trial to create real time 3D avatar
The Smart Internet Lab in Bristol is planning to demonstrate a 6G holographic capture and display system.
The Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol in the UK is developing end to end networks for advanced 5G and 6G applications, and plans to show a system that captures the 3D image of a person in real time across the network.
The demonstration, the first in the UK, will use 60 cameras with a range of connections to the network, using cellular 5G, WiFI and light-based LiFi connections, says Prof Dimitria Simeonidu, director of the Smart Internet Lab. The lab looks at the end-to-end networking challenges that the coming 6G standards will have to address.
The lab is currently testing out a volumetric reader with six cameras that captures multiple 2D images and converts them to 3D in real time using an Nvidia graphics processor in a local network ‘pop up’ node. The labs has also demonstrated the reconstruction of the 3D image in San Diego, California, over a transatlantic link.
“We use the network to stream the images and use the local network for rendering,” said Prof Simeonidu. “We are expanding this with 60 cameras with a pop up node to capture the images of a person to create a 3D avatar. We can collect the data locally and render locally or with a dedicated fibre to the US with rendering in San Diego.
“We will use that for the first 6G trials in the U.K. next March,” she added. The pop up node can use 5G Open RAN connection, fibre or a satellite back link.
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