Arcturus announced a new partnership with NTT DOCOMO, created to help stream volumetric videos of any length over a mobile network for the first time. Now, anyone on DOCOMO’s 5G network – from the average user to professionals in industries ranging from ecommerce to healthcare and beyond – can stream the future of video directly to their mobile devices. Although volumetric videos have seen a steady increase in everything from entertainment to education, the recent introduction of lidar cameras for mobile devices is poised to turn anyone with a compatible phone or tablet into a new type of content creator. But with the complexity and size of the files – which include detailed 3D geometry and multiple camera angles – volumetric videos have not been suitable for streaming anything beyond short clips. This new partnership changes that, giving 5G mobile users the ability to stream volumetric videos of any length without a drop in quality, so they can explore every angle of the video directly from their browser. Users can also access volumetric 3D models as AR or through VR, all in real-time. To bring volumetric videos to mobile devices, DOCOMO is leveraging its 5G network speeds and CDN expertise, with Arcturus’s compression tools, adaptive bitrate streaming solution and video player, capable of adapting to a device’s bandwidth to maintain the highest quality possible. Utilizing these tools, playback length in volumetric videos is no longer an issue, and users browsing on a web browser, or experiencing them in AR or VR, can now explore travel hotspots, explore retail locations, watch full workout videos and more, all from their chosen point-of-view, and all on their mobile devices. This partnership follows Arcturus’s release of its volumetric video content delivery platform, which allows artists to easily edit and compress clips, then distribute them to third-party tools, including post-production software, real-time game engines and more. As the global rollout of 5G technology continues, individual and commercial studios alike have access to the tools they will need to engage with the next stage of the evolution of video.