Amimon showed its wireless technology used in a VR/AR application with ‘zero’ latency at the VRX conference in San Francisco. Unlike 60GHz solutions (for example from TPCast and Intel), the Amimon technology uses the 5GHz band which makes for longer range and operation without a direct line of sight. The technology supports 4K30, 3K60, 2K90 OR 1080P120 resolutions using its AMN 2130/2230 chips which can support up to 300 million pixels per second with less than 1ms latency.
As well as the chips, Amimon supplies wireless modules that have up to 50 metres of range and allowing eight co-existing systems.
Analyst Comment
We first reported on Amimon from Infocomm in 2006 (Display Monitor Vol 13 No 27). The company missed out on becoming, as it wanted, a standardised wireless display interface, but has developed in areas where the latency is critical, including in medicine, broadcast and in support of drones. The technology gets a lot of resolution through a relatively narrow band by compression. However, the compression and bit dropping is ‘intelligent’ so that the impact is visually limited. (BR)
Amimon’s AR/VR Wireless Module
