Amazon partners with NGCodec for AWS-based 4K video compression, VR and AR on FPGA.

November 30, 2016

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AWS re:Invent 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada – NGCodec® (Sunnyvale, CA), a pioneering company focused on FPGA-based H.265/HEVC video codec development, today announced that it has been working with Amazon® Web Services (AWS) in the development of RealityCodec™ for hardware-accelerated AWS-based video encoding and VR / AR processing.

RealityCodec allows for AWS-based, ultra-high-performance video compression (at up to 4K resolution) and ultra-low sub-frame latency cloud-based VR and AR (should this feature be implemented by Amazon) for all AWS customers. By running the compute function in the cloud, it is possible to send only the graphics pixels in the form of a video feed to the HMD (Head Mounted Display). The benefits to this approach are higher performance, lower cost and longer battery life for the consumer VR/AR hardware.

NGCodec’s RealityCodec technology runs on NGCodec-designed FPGA instances, presenting significant advantages for AWS cloud computing compared to traditional software encoding, including:

  • Massive acceleration and efficiency compared to traditional CPU/GPU instances

  • Higher-quality video for live encoding

  • Lower running costs and flexibility / upgradability, just like traditional software

“AWS is breaking ground as the first public cloud to add FPGA instances, which offers significant acceleration over CPU and GPU instance types,” said Oliver Gunasekara, CEO & co-founder, NGCodec Inc. “Many large media workflows, including on-demand and live streaming content, are moving to the AWS Cloud. These can now have all the benefits of FPGA acceleration in the AWS ecosystem.”

Amazon Web Services Inc.

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