{"id":35785,"date":"2019-07-04T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=35785"},"modified":"2019-07-04T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T03:04:53","slug":"platforms-keen-on-delivering-seamless-live-streaming-experience-as-online-mobile-gaming-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/07\/04\/platforms-keen-on-delivering-seamless-live-streaming-experience-as-online-mobile-gaming-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Platforms keen on delivering seamless live streaming experience as online mobile gaming grows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Technology has had a significant impact all over the world, driving progress and innovation in nearly every industry known to man, and gaming is no exception to this revolution. Over the years, gaming as a source of entertainment has evolved tremendously, especially with the introduction of the internet, forming what people now enjoy as online gaming. From baby games to adult games, casual games and shooter games, multiple online gaming genres have arised to attract the attention of every demographic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\nrecent study by Limelight Networks titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limelight.com\/resources\/white-paper\/state-of-online-gaming-2019\/\">\u201cThe State of Online Gaming\n\u2013 2019\u201d<\/a>, revealed that mobile phones are the most commonly used\ndevices for playing video games, with casual single-player games such as Candy\nCrush, Angry Birds, and Spider Solitaire being the most played. This could be\nattributed to the availability of a diverse range of casual single-player games\nthat are easily downloadable, and the accessibility and ease of use that mobile\ngaming provides anytime, anywhere. It was also noted that a younger set of\ngamers aged 18-25 years old are more likely to consider themselves expert\ngamers than older ones, and prefer to play First-Person Shooter games such as\nOverwatch and Destiny 2 and Battle Royale games including Fortnite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study\nalso found that nearly two-thirds of gamers (63.6 percent) prefer to acquire\nvideo games by downloading rather than purchasing physical copies, renting, or\ntrading them. However, 85 percent are frustrated by the download process, with\nslow download speeds as the primary complaint. When playing games, fast\nperformance is the most important consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably,\nthe study also revealed that video game streaming sites such as Twitch and\nYouTube Gaming are becoming increasingly popular especially among young gamers\naged 18-25 who now spend 77 percent more time watching online gaming than\ntraditional sports on television, and gamers 26-35 spending nearly the same\namount of time watching online gaming as broadcast sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nreport, which is part of a series of consumer surveys about online habits and\nopinions, is based on responses from 4,500 consumers in nine nations all over\nthe world, aged 18 and older who play video games at least once a week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Limelight Networks is a premier content delivery\nnetwork (CDN) service provider which enables organizations and businesses to\ndeliver faster websites, more responsive applications, the highest quality\nvideo, and consistent game and software downloads to any device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaheer\nAbas, Senior Director, SEA &amp; India at Limelight Networks,\nsays that the implementation of cutting edge technologies has led to the rapid\ngrowth of the online gaming industry. \u201cSmart devices, connectivity, and digital\ntechnologies are bringing new experiences, providing marketers and gaming\nplatforms an opportunity to engage their respective markets more effectively,\u201d\nhe shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live streaming, for one, is booming all over the\nworld, and this is true for online gaming as well. Abas notes that, while gaming operators seek to adopt live streaming for time-critical content\nfor gameplay, one of the challenges is the issue of latency.&nbsp;\u201cEssential to\nthe online gaming experience today is the delivery of content at ultra-low\nlatency so players can experience the game in near real-time on any device.\nLatency is the time between when the camera captures the video until it is\nplayed back on another device. Any delays in streaming will likely have a major\nimpact on player satisfaction,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developers and gaming platforms are urged to look to\nnew technologies to address issues on performance. To address the latency\nissue, gaming operators need a\nstreaming solution that is able to deliver predictable and consistent low\nlatencies to players in order for them to see the action in near real-time on\nvirtually any device, and from anywhere in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The industry is looking at a\nsolution called Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC), an open framework that\nenables scalable, real-time delivery of on-demand content for web browsers and\nmobile applications. Limelight Networks offers a WebRTC-based low-latency live\nvideo streaming solution called Limelight Realtime Streaming, which can deliver\nlive broadcast-quality video with less than one second of latency. \n\n\u201cMore than creating\nengaging content, it is important for gaming platforms to deliver a seamless gaming\nexperience. For many dedicated players,\nthe online gaming experience is more than just a game.\nMany players have built global communities, forged new friendships and brought\nthe games to life. To this group of players, the gaming experience is of utmost\nimportance. As such, the onus is on gaming operators to provide the best gaming\nexperiences to millions of players globally by ensuring the delivery of low\nlatency streams,\u201d emphasizes Abbas.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by Limelight Networks titled, \u201cThe State of Online Gaming \u2013 2019\u201d, revealed that mobile phones are the most commonly used devices for playing video games, with casual single-player games such as Candy Crush, Angry Birds, and Spider Solitaire being the most played. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[5030,4371,96],"class_list":["post-35785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines","tag-online-gaming","tag-online-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}