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LEADERS' SUMMIT 2024 SAMENA TRENDS

critical role of 5G and 5G-A in bringing
social and economic prosperity. Huawei
has been at the forefront of advancing 5G
and 5G-A technologies in the Middle East
and Central Asia.

With over 300 commercial 5G
networks already deployed globally and
advancements continuing, the transition
from 5G to 5G-Advanced is poised to
revolutionize network capabilities and
user experiences. While 5G laid the
groundwork for faster speeds and more
reliable connections, 5G-Advanced is
set to push these boundaries further,
offering significant enhancements in
terms of network efficiency, coverage and
performance.

Initiative to Enable Innovative Immersive Experiences

During the SAMENA Council Leaders’
Summit 2024, the Middle East Glasses-free
3D Industry Initiative was jointly announced
by Zain Group, Omantel, LAiPIC AI, LITITONG,
LANSHEN 3D, and others. This initiative
seeks to standardize glasses-free 3D
technologies, build ecosystem capabilities,
and incubate innovative applications using
5G and 5G-A, artificial intelligence (AI),
and computing network capabilities. Next-
generation digital experience for users
and new value-creation for the Industry are
key aspirations linked with this initiative.
Further development to make glasses-free prompting urgency of collaborative promote the inclusion of new technologies
3D more immersive and more convenient development of glasses-free 3D display such as AI, AR, and VR to improve the 3D
will be enabled by the high speeds and low and AI technologies as well as content, user experience. These technologies can
latency of 5G and 5G-A networks, powerful applications, and networks. Therefore, in enable more real virtual applications and
computing networks, and AI. addition to improved visual experience more intelligent image processing, and
for users, the launching of this initiative improve 3D image quality, control crosstalk,
After years of development, the core during the Leaders’ Summit 2024, is and implement lossless 2D-to-3D content
technology of glasses-free 3D has matured, expected to create opportunities for scaled conversion.
and users can easily and freely enjoy a commercialization of glasses-free 3D.
natural and comfortable 3D experience Glasses-free 3D is already expanding from
through various terminal devices. The Underscoring the urgent need for market recreation and entertainment to domains
high-speed and low latency of 5G and presence of glasses-free 3D devices in with practical use-cases in education,
5G-A networks, the powerful processing diverse form factors and at low costs, healthcare, and manufacturing. For
capability of the computing networks the Glasses-free 3D Industry Initiative example, glasses-free 3D can help make
and the power of AI capabilities are now will channel industry resources to further learning more interesting and intuitive. In
ready to accelerate real immersion and explore the development of the glasses- healthcare, glasses-free 3D can be used for
interaction convenience of glasses-free free 3D industry as a whole and new medical image visualization and surgical
3D, bringing users a new visual experience directions for the technology. This initiative simulation. Holistically, the Glasses-free 3D
upgrade. will promote collaboration among Telecom Industry Initiative will further the 3D industry
Operators and industry partners, which ecosystem, improve 3D user experience,
The year 2024 is important for scaled will accelerate commercialization of the and create new business opportunities in
commercialization of glasses-free 3D, technology. Moreover, the initiative will help the 3D industry.

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