VTuber 3D Talk Live on Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Puts Rendering on the Phone
The event shifted rendering from the cloud to the smartphone itself, using millimeter wave bandwidth to stream 3D data to 50 devices at once, a test of what on-device VTuber live delivery could look like.
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Mawari and KDDI held an August 3 event using the pre-release Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and millimeter wave communication for a 3D talk live with four VTubers: ChumuNote, Tenshi El, Yuime Yui, and Kujo Ringo. Unlike the March event, which rendered in the cloud, this time 3D data was downloaded to phones and rendered on-device, with 50 attendees connecting simultaneously.
The August 3 event, run by Mawari and KDDI, put four VTubers on a single 3D stage viewed through the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8. ChumuNote, Tenshi El, Yuime Yui, and Kujo Ringo appeared in a roughly 30-minute live session with 50 attendees.
The setup used Mawari's ARAWA platform, but with a change from the March event. Instead of cloud rendering streamed through millimeter wave, the 3D avatar and background data was downloaded to each phone and rendered on-device. As VTubers joined mid-show and the stage changed, the phones kept downloading and drawing new data.
Millimeter wave offers wider bandwidth than existing frequency bands, which keeps connections fast even when many users hit the same line at once. The event also included a side-by-side download test where a millimeter wave-connected device finished downloading a full drama series before a non-connected device that started earlier.
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