BEIJING – With 5G expected to roll out in the next year or two, OPPO istaking video calls to the next level. Their Global Research Institute inShenzhen have just demonstrated the world’s first 5G Video Call using 3Dstructured light technology.
While normal video calls allow two or more parties to see each other inreal time, OPPO’s new solution can reproduce a 3D portrait image ofyourself on the remote device. It uses portrait information collected froma structured-light 3D camera on an OPPO smartphone.
For this demonstration, they used a customised OPPO R11slink> that has RGB andstructured-light cameras to collect colour and 3D depth information. Thisis then transmitted over a 5G environment with 5G NR terminal prototypesfrom Qualcomm. This is just one of OPPO’s exploration of new applicationsfor 5G. The real-world benefits are yet to be seen and hopefully, itdoesn’t end up to be another variation of animoji.
In the past, OPPO had demonstrated several technological breakthroughs likeits Super VOOClink>fastcharging that can fully charge a phone in just 15 minutes. There’s also the 5XZoom periscope-stylelink>dual-cameratechnology which was unveiled at MWC 2017. Unfortunately, we don’t seethese features on an actual OPPO product. However, OPPO is aiming tocommercialise this structured light technology on OPPO phones in about 6months’ time.