The Round provides a platform for live, interactive video content creation and distribution. It enables creators to host real-time broadcasts, engage directly with their audience through live chat and reactions, and monetize their streams. This service focuses on delivering high-quality, synchronous viewing experiences for digital events and performances.
Funding
$100K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Creating high-quality 3D animations for XR and gaming platforms often requires managing large data files, which can limit scalability and accessibility for developers and immersive studios. Delivering real-time animations to a global audience across various platforms presents challenges in maintaining performance and visual fidelity.
Solution
The Round offers a SaaS tool for real-time spatial streaming, enabling developers to deliver high-quality, scalable animations on demand across XR projects and games. Its proprietary protocol synchronizes, compresses, encodes, and encrypts 3D motion and audio data for transmission at up to 120 frames per second. The Round Distributor, a cloud-based middleware, allows users to manage and license unlimited libraries of 3D animation data. The Round Player, a plugin for real-time 3D engines, decodes the animation data for on-demand playback.
Target Audience
The primary users are developers and immersive studios creating XR experiences and games, as well as IP holders and brands seeking to engage new audiences across immersive digital platforms.
Features
- Proprietary protocol for real-time synchronization, compression, encoding, and encryption of 3D motion and audio data
- Streaming capability of up to 120 frames per second with broadcast-quality AV sync
- Cloud-based SaaS middleware for creating, managing, accessing, and licensing 3D animation data
- Plugin available for real-time 3D engines and runtime virtual environments, currently supporting UE5
- Compatibility with various motion capture systems
- Support for delivering content to an unlimited audience globally