Preview: How to realize low-cost, strong interaction, and immersive cloud games?

Cloud gaming is a hot industry topic in recent years.

The concept of "cloud gaming" has been proposed more than ten years ago, carrying the expectations of the industry and the public. Although cloud games themselves have many features such as "cloud operation, ultra-high definition, zero delay, and click-to-play", the user experience has never been as expected.

With the advent of the 5G era, and the ability of the central cloud to sink to the edge cloud, the characteristics of high bandwidth, low latency, and high performance are closely integrated with cloud games, breaking through the bandwidth and latency problems of real-time cloud rendering, giving cloud games greater imagination.

On top of cloud games, "cloud rendering technology" and "streaming technology" are the core that cannot be avoided.

Just in June, CCTV launched the first large-scale immersive digital interactive space "Sanxingdui Fantastic Journey". Alibaba Cloud uses cloud rendering and streaming technology to take the audience through the screen, and "immersive" tour the archaeological site and experience the history. Reprinted before.

"Cloud Rendering" puts the graphics computing power and storage requirements required for large-scale immersive experiences on the cloud, so that the images that the audience sees and interacts with are calculated by the cloud in real time.

"Streaming" is the key way to realize cloud games. The game rendering scene is converted into a video stream through the data center, and then pushed to the user terminal through the network, so that the audience can get rid of the limitation of local hardware and experience immersive interaction at a low cost.

In the scene of cloud games and the instantaneous interaction of players, it will bring many challenges to video streaming. When streaming TV or movies, viewers can tolerate a few seconds of buffering at first, but when streaming high-definition games, not only must the latency be reduced to milliseconds, but the high-fidelity picture quality must be rendered in real time. , to satisfy the immersion of the game.

As a result, cloud rendering streaming technology is opening up a low-cost, highly interactive immersive experience.

In response to this topic, Li Zhong, a senior technical expert of Alibaba Cloud, will share the essence of it with you in a global distributed cloud conference - Cloud Gaming Forum.

Taking this cloud game forum, we will also focus on improving the user experience of cloud games, enriching the quality of cloud game content, and exploring more valuable cloud game business models.

Global Distributed Cloud Conference-Cloud Gaming Forum

With the rapid development of edge computing and GPU virtualization technologies, core challenges such as latency issues and usage costs that have long hindered the development of 3D cloud rendering are being gradually resolved. With the rise of the metaverse industry trend, cloud rendering technology represented by cloud games has begun to be implemented on a large scale.

Among them, cloud rendering streaming technology is the core of user experience. With the long-term accumulation of audio and video technologies, Alibaba Cloud has deeply optimized the video processing efficiency of the combination of software and hardware, the QoS adaptive narrowband HD encoding, and the ultra-low latency transmission combined with edge computing, which greatly improves the user experience of cloud rendering and streaming. , and significantly reduce the computational cost of cloud rendering.

Cloud Rendering Streaming Technology Enables Low-cost Strong Interaction Immersive Experience

Preview of the speech:

1. Introduction and Challenges of Cloud Rendering Technology
2. Alibaba Cloud's cloud rendering streaming experience and cost optimization
3. Future Prospects of Cloud Rendering Technology

On August 26th, this Friday, count down 2 days to an immersive technology feast with cloud game streaming technology!

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