Gigcasters Announces Nokia OZO turnkey VR system Featuring Gigcasters Encoding Platform
Combined solution enables premium stitching, encoding, and OTT delivery of OZO VR content
Austin, Texas(20 Apr 2017)
Gigcasters, an industry leader in single and multi-channel high density encoders (HYDRA), and end to end OTT cloud video delivery platform (Flight Deck), announced today the availability of a turnkey Virtual Reality acquisition and OTT delivery system with Nokia’s OZO camera, OZO Live, and the integration of Nokia’s embedded VR OZO Player SDK into Gigcasters IRIS video player. The combined offering will enable live event producers to acquire, stitch, encode, and deliver VR content live to any web/mobile device.
“Delivering virtual reality live over the top to any web or mobile platform is a challenge. We have partnered with Nokia to take advantage of the OZO camera and OZO Live real-time stitching tools and combined that with our single and multi-channel encoding solutions.” stated Casey Charvet, CEO and CTO of Gigcasters. “The combined offering between Nokia and Gigcasters will be the on-ramp for the delivery of Virtual Reality content using Gigcasters cloud video platform and Nokia’s OZO Player SDK to add VR capability to the Gigcasters HTML5 video player. "
“Gigcasters is an innovative partner in the encoding and OTT space who have the technical expertise when it comes to developing proven solutions for live and 24x7 linear channel delivery, " added Jesse Beaudin, Head of VR Sales at NokiaTechnology. "It is a natural fit to work with Casey and his team on the development of a turnkey high-quality Virtual Reality solution for live event producers leveraging OZO+, OZO Live , and the OZO Player SDK."
Gigcasters will have the full offering on display at NAB in booth SL5230 showing the OZO camera, Nokia’s OZO Live stitching software, Gigcaster 4K encoder, and end to end OTT platform and player. Pricing and availability information will be made public at NAB at the Gigcasters booth.
To learn more about the Gigcasters HYDRA line of encoders, Flight Deck cloud video platform, and HTML5 white label embedable video player IRIS, visit www.gigcasters.com
About Gigcasters
Gigcasters is a digital video technology and engineering services company that provides professional content producers with the hardware and software tools, expertise, and infrastructure to digitally distribute and monetize their content. Gigcasters has developed an innovative approach to single and multi-channel encoders (HYDRA series) that offer a wide array of choices to meet any live event or 24x7 linear channel delivery needs. Gigcasters end to end offering for OTT delivery includes Flight Deck, Gigcasters cloud video aggregation, management, distribution and analytics platform and HTML5 white label embeddable player.