InterDigital at MWC 2023

InterDigital at MWC 2023

Mar 2023/ Posted By: InterDigital Comms

<p>During InterDigital&rsquo;s showcase at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, our leaders, engineers, and inventors demonstrated our wireless, video, and AI/ML innovations enabling the future of connected ecosystems.</p>
<p>More than 88,000 participants traveled to the Gran Fira for the annual telecom conference and InterDigital was pleased to welcome a variety of visitors to experience our innovative research and industry collaborations that leverage AI/ML to enhance wireless network behaviors beyond 5G, provide rendering and delivery solutions for high quality HDR content, and shape standards for immersive and sensory-enhanced video experiences.</p>
<p>InterDigital left a strong mark on visitors through our technology demonstrations and public engagement. We held a variety of meetings, interviews, and briefings to outline the importance of our innovative research and bring attention to important issues facing our tech ecosystem.</p>
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<p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.interdigital.com/55bd0288af0b0930ba599bd0c4b7ca38/resources/uploads/direct_editor_uploads/InterDigitalMWCBooth.jpg" alt="InterDigital MWC Booth" /></p>
<p>In addition to welcoming a delegation of European Commission MEPs and a diverse group of business representatives, our executives and research leaders met with a variety of journalists and analysts to discuss issues ranging from <a href="https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/home-banner/interdigital-chief-backs-6g-to-inspire-new-thinking/">6G, AI/ML</a>, and <a href="https://www.mobileworldlive.com/session/interview-liren-chen-ceo-interdigital-2023/">immersive trends</a> with Mobile World Live, the intricacies and <a href="https://www.6gworld.com/exclusives/five-6g-demos-showcased-at-mwc23/">impact of our demos</a> with 6GWorld, and InterDigital&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.everythingrf.com/news/details/16017-anritsu-and-interdigital-demonstrate-metaverse-simulation-environment-at-mwc-2023">contributions to a metaverse simulation environment with Anritsu</a>, among other topics.</p>
<p>Our wireless and video demos displayed how InterDigital&rsquo;s pioneering research sits at the intersection of wireless and video and introduced the ways AI/ML can be applied to critical network components to enable the devices, services, and experiences that define connected ecosystems.</p>
<p><span style="color: #00aeef;"><strong><strong><img style="float: left; margin: 10px 15px 15px 0;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.interdigital.com/55bd0288af0b0930ba599bd0c4b7ca38/resources/uploads/direct_editor_uploads/imageone.png" alt="" width="317" height="392" /><br />AI-Enabled Experiences Beyond 5G</strong></strong></span>&ndash; At MWC, we demonstrated our innovations that leverage AI/ML to enhance network behaviors beyond 5G to improve user experience under radio link degradation. Using an emulated 5G network provided by Anritsu, we remotely and seamlessly controlled a robotic arm via live video feed through a VR headset to demonstrate how InterDigital&rsquo;s solutions help enhance and overcome adverse network conditions that would otherwise impact user experiences.</p>
<p><span style="color: #00aeef;"><strong><strong>Ensuring Quality Streaming and Rendering for 4K HDR Video</strong></strong></span>&ndash; In addition, we showcased our video expertise in VVC and SL-HDR technology, which helps deliver some of the highest streaming and rendering quality for 4K HDR video. Our contributions in this space help enable the delivery of high-quality video content, a critical component of realistic, immersive virtual ecosystems.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #00aeef;"><strong><strong><img style="float: right; margin: 10px 15px 15px 0;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.interdigital.com/55bd0288af0b0930ba599bd0c4b7ca38/resources/uploads/direct_editor_uploads/imagetwo.png" alt="" width="305" height="407" /><br />Encouraging Seamless Digital Representation for Connected Communications</strong></strong></span>&ndash; InterDigital engineers also demonstrated their latest research contributions to disruptive avatar-related technologies, including MPEG&rsquo;s new 3D reference model for a humanoid avatar, furthering our effort to support a single virtual representation of users in connected environments.</p>
<p><span style="color: #00aeef;"><strong><strong>Immersive Codecs Enabling Future XR Experiences</strong></strong></span>- Immersive Codecs Enabling Future XR Experiences &ndash; We also highlighted the importance of our contributions to MPEG Immersive codecs in enabling future XR experiences. At our booth, we displayed how bandwidth-heavy volumetric video content can be seamlessly streamed over an enhanced 5G network using open video standards like video point cloud compression (V-PCC), and how sensory-enhanced experiences can be more efficiently streamed with the new MPEG-Haptics standard.</p>
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<p>Throughout the show, we spotlighted InterDigital&rsquo;s innovative contributions in video and wireless that will help unlock exciting and immersive experiences in the future. Our demos were bolstered by the debut of our concept video, illustrating InterDigital&rsquo;s long-term impact of enabling new technologies and solutions that make connected spaces more immersive while helping to establish a more seamless interface between physical, digital, and virtual worlds. You can view the video below.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1GmuDtvOyio" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>Our booth and demos helped illustrate that the connected ecosystems that define our present, and our future, are all underpinned by a foundation of wireless and video technologies and standards that enable virtual experiences that are seamless, immersive, and realistic.</p>
<p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.interdigital.com/55bd0288af0b0930ba599bd0c4b7ca38/resources/uploads/direct_editor_uploads/MilindMWC.jpg" alt="Milind Kulkarni MWC Panel" /></p>
<p>InterDigital&rsquo;s Head of Wireless Labs Milind Kulkarni reiterated these important messages as a featured speaker during the &ldquo;<em>5G, AI, and XR for New Immersive Experiences</em>&rdquo; conference session, alongside fellow experts from Ericsson and Qualcomm. The discussion, moderated by EY&rsquo;s Edwina Fitzmaurice, addressed some of the forthcoming technologies and innovations and the importance of standards in enabling new capabilities for immersive experiences and services.</p>
<p>You can watch Milind&rsquo;s panel discussion <a href="https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/agenda/session/xr-ai-5g-for-a-new-immersive-experience">here</a>.</p>
<p>We were pleased to be back in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2023, and we look forward to the exciting year ahead!</p>