DEFINITION December 2019

FEATURE | NEXT- GEN CARR I ERS

In the future, all your interactions and language will be based on voice (you’ll ask for things) and gestures (you’ll move your hands)

and services for military, police and law enforcement agencies; AI-powered cameras and footage distribution are all part of that growth. Mansouri has also started delving into the effects of faster wireless broadband for the M&E industries and, unsurprisingly, has found some commercial potential. “We’re now working much closer with the studios to install the future, which is based on depth and not just a flat image. We feel it’s going to change not just entertainment, but also our communication foundations,” he explains. “In the future, for the tech companies we work with, their vision is to get rid of the keyboard and the monitor. All your interactions and language will be based on voice (you’ll ask for things) and gestures (you’ll move your hands). Computers will be body-worn, which is even more feasible, because the connections we need, computing power, will be accessed through a cloud. This will only happen with 5G, private LTE and CBRS connections, and let us have secured superfast access to data.” WORKING WITH 5G How does 5G fit in to this vision of future computing? Mansouri explains

For live broadcast, higher bandwidth and reduced latency will enable more remote production applications. If you reduce the latency for all communication, applications between the station and the field crew would enable more work to be done remotely. OUTSIDE ENTERTAINMENT Michael Mansouri is really someone worth getting to know. He is a production expert – in fact, more of a solutions guy. He has spent his career building custom-made camera rigs for productions, even reverse- engineering cameras to make them bend to his will. His company, Radiant Images, was early to VR, AR, light field and volumetric technology. Last month, Radiant was acquired by Hawkeye Systems, which has customers in the entertainment, sports, auto, education, training and medical spaces. But it also bought Radiant to expand its products

motorcycle courier and a bonded cellular encoder once footage touched down on the tarmac after an aerial shoot. Thanks to Dejero and HFS for being game to try, and sorry it never happened – maybe we should revisit when 5G becomes more standard. In fact, Dejero is helping us out again with this article by producing a guide to 5G for producers and, in fact, anyone who can see how much faster through-the-air 5G data could work for them. (That’s nearly everyone then.) No offence to Dejero or any other expert in the bonded cellular world, but we really need some guidance from production experts on how these future technologies will ease workflow and, indeed, make people money. See Michael Mansouri’s comments later in this article. WHAT DOES 5G BRING? 5G promises improved performance through higher (or less contested) bandwidth, which in turn, delivers better connectivity with improved reliability. The higher bandwidth, especially through extremely high-frequency mmWave, can also enable or strengthen broadcast use cases, such as remote production. It is bound to bring less network congestion, especially in dense urban areas, as well as the ability to create and enable use cases and scenarios that would have been unthinkable before. For example, in February this year, Dejero was involved in a 5G world first. A young guitarist joined a rock band on stage in Bucharest, performing as a live hologram from a studio 2km away. A spectacular showcase of Vodafone Romania’s 5G technology and Musion 3D’s Eyeliner holographic foil, the event gathered thousands of fans, livestreamed on Facebook and became Vodafone’s 2019 flagship commercial in Romania – with over two million YouTube views to date. Musion 3D used Dejero’s EnGo mobile transmitters and broadcast servers to deliver video links to and from the studio, with the hologram streamed over a Huawei router and Vodafone 5G link. As 5G deployments evolve, bandwidth will become less restrictive, enabling higher-quality video transmissions and allowing for more HD and 4K live video. Additionally, the promise of 5G includes lower network latency (especially for applications that use edge computing).

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