Attendance at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2022 actually surpassed the attendance at the last Cable-Tec Expo in 2019, meaning it outperformed most other live shows in the last year — on average trade shows are only getting about 65% attendance compared to pre-pandemic years. By all accounts the show was hugely successful and included an opening day session in front of a packed house of thousands of attendees.
IDEA member company CableLabs was quite active, providing a glimpse into the future of content consumption at their booth, with a demo of the 3D holographic display from Looking Glass Factory, another IDEA member.
Also at the show, CableLabs software engineer, Austin Pahl, gave an in-depth presentation on motivations and algorithms behind “3D Streaming.” The concept of 3D streaming emerged from IDEA, which recognized a need for delivering immersive content to end displays with a simple, uniform methodology regardless of display type. With the ongoing growth of immersive media, particularly augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and light field displays, and the rapidly increasing data throughput requirements needed by these devices, IDEA believes it is more important than ever to build an architecture that streamlines distribution workflows.
Pahl’s presentation slides and paper will be made available for free on the Fall Technical Forum website later this year. https://expo.scte.org/fall-technical-forum/