Study on Haptics in 5G Media Services
The present technical report documents relevant use-cases, interoperability requirements, performance characteristics of haptics formats and codecs to enable haptics enhanced media streaming and communication services. This report documents the integration of haptics media in 3GPP media streaming and communication services to support the addition of a Haptics media type at the same level than audio and video in 3GPP media services.
- Clause 4 provides some background information on haptics systems as wells as a definition of haptics media and media pipeline.
- Clause 5 lists use cases illustrating the added value of haptics in 3GPP scenarios, identifies haptics characteristics and introduces interoperability considerations.
- Clause 6 presents the different types of haptics signals, the existing media formats and categorizes the different types of devices and their haptics specificities.
- Clause 7 documents the candidate technologies, in particular codecs, storage formats and transport protocols.
- Clause 8 focuses on the integration of haptics into 3GPP services and architectures including IMS, RTC, Messaging and XR device.
- Clause 9 summarizes the typical traffic characteristics of haptics media depending on the use cases and formats under consideration.
- Clause 10 addresses the QoS and QoE aspects.
- Clause 11 summarizes the identified characteristics, gaps and potential requirements
- Finally, clause 12 provides a conclusion and addresses the potential next steps.