Agora will demonstrate how real-time engagement technology
increases interactivity and will power the metaverse
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/
-- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a pioneer and leading
platform for real-time engagement APIs, today announced that it
will be exhibiting at the 2022 Game Developer
Conference (GDC), the game industry's premier event that
brings together the game development community to exchange ideas,
solve problems and shape the future of the industry. GDC – which
will have more than 25,000 participants – takes place from
March 21-25, both virtually and
in-person in San Francisco,
CA.
To showcase the value in real-time audio and video technology,
Agora will host two virtual speaker sessions. For the first, titled
Increase Engagement Stickiness and Revenue Opportunities with
Real Time Voice and Video, Ben
Weekes, Senior Architect and Principal Engineer for Agora,
will explore how embedding real-time voice and video into games can
boost engagement, growth and revenue opportunities. Ben will also
demonstrate how to easily integrate the highest-quality spatial
audio and live video into a 3D gaming engine. The session is
Friday, March 25 at 1:30 PM PT.
"Games with real-time voice and video are more intriguing to
users because they feel more real," said Weekes. "Developers who
learn how to add live audio and video technology will have a
greater advantage as we continue to meet the demand for more
real-life virtual gaming experiences."
For the second virtual session, titled The Magic that Makes
the Metaverse Feel Real, Hermes
Frangoudis, Director of Developer Relations for Agora, will
explore the evolution of virtual interactions, discuss the
requirements for real-time digital engagement in virtual worlds and
how networking technology has evolved to meet these demands. The
session will take a deep dive beyond the hype and examine
real-world examples to understand how edge computing and real-time
networks are the magic that powers the metaverse. The session is
Friday, March 25 at 2:30 PM PT.
"Developers are faced with a unique opportunity, and challenges
too, as we look more closely at the metaverse concept and what it
means for the future of digital engagement,'' said Frangoudis. "At
Agora, we're democratizing the metaverse for smaller developers by
arming them with easy-to-embed APIs, expansive SDKs and the most
reliable, low-latency network solution. We can't simply think about
the metaverse without thinking of how we plan to scale connectivity
globally as we continue to meet the demand."
In addition to the virtual speaker sessions, Agora will showcase
in-booth demos featuring live video and audio technology
capabilities, including the following:
- Banuba (video and live)
- Battleship with Voicemod (live play)
- Meta KTV - (live)
- De Kabeza - (live trivia game)
- Symbl.ai - (video)
- Bunch – (video)
Agora's GDC exhibition will help developers with two key
challenges: how to increase connectivity and user engagement
globally as we progress the development of the metaverse and
digital connectivity, as well as how useful real-time audio and
video technology is for increasing engagement and
revenue.
To see Agora's audio and video demonstrations at GDC 2022 from
March 23-25 in San Francisco, CA, visit booth
P1754.
About Agora
Agora is the leading Real-time Engagement Platform as a Service
(RTE PaaS) company. Agora's mission is to make real-time engagement
ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any
application, anytime and anywhere. Agora's platform provides
developers with simple, flexible and powerful application
programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time video and voice
engagement experiences into their applications.
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