ATEME and LiveLike lead virtual reality to the Roland Garros

ATEME and LiveLike lead virtual reality to the Roland Garros Titan Ateme Live coding and the application for virtual reality of LiveLike have allowed to develop an interesting experience VR in the prestigious tennis tournament.

The potential of the solution for compression and distribution of live video Titan Live of ATEME He has returned to be patent in the Open de France. Titan Live was used to power an application of virtual reality that was available throughout the tournament. The application offered an experience of live at 180 and 360 view to tennis fans and was created by the partner of Ateme, LiveLike. Available for free on Android and iOS devices, it used the Titan Live solution to encode in Ultra high definition signals at different bit rates to offer the best quality experience video on tablets and Smartphones to fans of the open de France.

TITAN Live is a solution of software compression of high quality and high density, designed for cable, DTH and OTT capable of delivering content live in SD, HD and Ultra HD (UHD). On the basis of a concept from CPU agnostic and pure hardware is executable on any operating system: Linux, Windows, and Virtual Machine. It is based on the fifth generation Stream Ateme compression engine and offers the highest video quality at minimum bit rates with accelerated parallel processing. The solution also addresses current and future requirements to address main screens and applications multi-screen, since low resolutions to UHD p60.

Fabrice Lorenceau, co-founder and head of production of LiveLike, emphasizes that "the France open organizers sought to break new ground and being pioneers in the delivery of the tournament this time in virtual reality fans with scale and quality. LiveLike is delighted to have taken a critical role in the French Open VR project in close collaboration with Ateme. More important still, fans really have been thrilled with the experience".

Claude Stoffel, Ateme in EMEA sales director, adds that "we have been working with LiveLike during more than two years focused on how enhance virtual reality user experience." Today, we are proud to contribute to the creation of this new exciting application developed for the tournament. With the demand of the viewer and expectations changing so fast, its really amazing to see a tennis match as if you were a few meters from the tennis players, while the spectator is comfortably seated on the sofa. By combining our Titan Live coding and LiveLike applying VR technology we are entering into the future of television".

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