The Future of 5G: Immersive, virtual reality sports experiences

[MUSIC] Imagine having the ability to freely move around, change your viewing perspective and even jump into the field and watch the action unfold around you. My name's Dave Cole and I'm the CEO and co-founder of NextVR, the world's largest VR broadcast platform. 5G will bring incredible, immersive, virtual reality sporting event experiences to a mass audience. These experiences could be even better than being there in person. The level of realism required to convince somebody that they're somewhere else in the real world is really incredibly challenging. With 5G, the increased bandwidth, along with 5G-optimize devices, we're able to give you incredibly high resolution. Motion will be more fluid. Multiple camera views will open up new areas Is that users can explore you'll be able to see as clearly as you could as if you were actually there over 4G or LTE. When you receive next VR experience it allows you to move around in three degrees of freedom but you fundamentally can't translate walk sideways in space 5G is going to enable us to decouple your view and allow you to shift it in space. This is a first time in the history of history that an experience that is fundamentally video, allows you to move in it as if you were in the real world. Right now, there are about 22 million virtual reality devices in the world. But with 5G, every new 5G handset is a very capable virtual reality computer. One of the most exciting virtual reality product that's coming to market right now is the lightweight very high quality headsets that plug directly into your 5G phone. In terms of delivering experiences that were Sort of VIP or for the elite only, that's one of the most important values that we can deliver to a fan. To sell you a seat that you can't even buy, but anywhere in the world can have that same seat at the same time, at the same game using virtual reality. Make no mistake, VR is gonna be a paradigm shifting killer app with the rollout of 5G. [MUSIC] [MUSIC]