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Red5 Pro is excited to announce our ongoing partnership with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as host for not only our internet presence but also our upcoming hosted Experience Delivery Network (XDN). There is an excellent synergy between our companies, from our Java roots to our global customer base. As part of our new relationship, we… Continue reading Red5 Pro and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Partnership

In previous blog posts, we discussed how virtual reality (VR) can be used in areas like healthcare and gaming. Whether for providing distance-learning medical training or allowing friends to meet up and play board games, virtual reality has the potential to bring new life to a variety of fields. We wanted to highlight a few… Continue reading Virtual Reality Use Cases

The tabletop game industry is booming. Just the board games market – a subset of the tabletop industry – is expected to increase by over 3 billion by 2026. It’s no surprise that companies and individuals are wondering how they can bring this market online. As mentioned in a previous article, there is significant potential… Continue reading How Virtual Reality Brings Tabletop Games to Life

Over the past year, Red5 Pro has been developing watch party software that allows users to join a group video call while watching their favorite show, sports team, or movie. If you’ve missed it, this means no more juggling Zoom calls in one tab and Netflix in another while trying to press play on a… Continue reading Reintroducing the Watch Party: Behind the Scenes of Red5 Pro’s Open-Source Watch Party Project

We’re excited to share another new server release! Release 10.6.0 includes improvements to the transcoder and several bug fixes to help your server run as smoothly as possible. See below for more details on what’s new. Improvement: Transcoder uses multi-CPU and multithreading processing for performance improvements (this improvement allows for 2K and 4K software transcoding)… Continue reading Server Release 10.6.0

Will you be at IBC2022? We will be and we’d like to say hello. Red5 Pro’s Chris Allen and Sylvio Jelovcich will be attending IBC to connect and share information about our live streaming software and new Watch Party technology. Would you like to meet with us? Contact sylvio@red5.net for more information or to schedule… Continue reading Join us at IBC2022

A hearty welcome to Ben Runyan, who joins the Red5 Pro team as the Sales Director. Ben comes to us from AMD, one of our strategic partners, and previously worked for Xilinx. In addition to his engineering background and robust sales and marketing experience, Ben brings a familiarity with the video broadcast industry and all… Continue reading Welcoming Ben Runyan

‌‌ Consumers’ insatiable appetite for game playing has reached the point where the use of socially meaningful gamification elements has become more essential than ever to fostering engagement across an expanding array of online activities.‌‌ But there’s something beyond the sheer number of gamers that makes this an especially propitious moment to be stepping up… Continue reading Defining Gamification for a New Era of Internet Engagement

When Epic Games launched Unreal and the underlying game engine in 1998, their goal was simple enough: create better games. As they made their tools available to others, however, first through direct licensing agreements, then via the Unreal Developer Kit in 2009, and eventually through Unreal Engine in 2014, it became clear that there was… Continue reading Beyond the Games: Video Streaming in Unreal Engine

A little competition can make any virtual experience more fun. From sports to video games, adding a competitive feature to your live video app is sure to draw in users and keep them coming back. One way to make video interactive is through the gamification of online services. We’ve come up with some fun ideas… Continue reading Using Online Competition and Gamification to Make Interactive Video Experiences Better