System-On-Chip (SOC) Technologies is proud to announce that SOC’s super-low-latency H.264 8K video encoding solution was chosen by NTT DOCOMO, INC. for its World's First 360-degree 8K VR Live Video Streaming and Viewing System. The system comprises of equipment that stitches together five 4K fisheye videos from five outward-facing cameras in real time at 30fps, an 8K H.264 encoder for real-time compression, the real-time Panorama Cho Engine encoder to divide the 360° 8K video into multi-direction tiles and a server to transmit tiles according to the user's viewing direction. For more product details, please visit: https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/info/media_center/pr/2018/0705_00.html
About NTT DOCOMO
NTT DOCOMO, Japan's leading mobile operator with over 76 million subscriptions, is one of the world's foremost contributors to 3G, 4G and 5G mobile network technologies. Beyond core communications services, DOCOMO is challenging new frontiers in collaboration with a growing number of entities ("+d" partners), creating exciting and convenient value-added services that change the way people live and work. Under a medium-term plan toward 2020 and beyond, DOCOMO is pioneering a leading-edge 5G network to facilitate innovative services that will amaze and inspire customers beyond their expectations. DOCOMO is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (9437). https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english