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7 Reasons Why You Should Start Streaming Smarter with OmniStream™

It’s the perfect time to start your free trial of ZeroLight’s enterprise streaming solution, OmniStream, for your Unreal Engine, Unity, or Autodesk VRED applications. 

Before you get started, have a scroll through these seven game-changing features that set OmniStream apart from alternative pixel streaming platforms:

1. Dependable streams

OmniStream’s Intelligent Stream Encoding (ISE) delivers streams to more end users across more locations, devices, operating systems, browsers, and even through corporate firewalls. 

This makes ISE a game-changing feature for many OmniStream customers. For B2B use cases, such as design reviews, it allows end users to receive a stream through their corporate firewall to conduct the review, which is where other streaming platforms can fail.

For B2C use cases, like product configurators, it allows internal stakeholders behind a firewall to receive a stream to review, feedback and approve an application before it is deployed for public access. It also means more end users will get to experience your application on the web. 

2. Multiple cost-effective content modes

OmniStream allows developers to provide multiple content modes for end users from the same source game engine application. These include on-demand image turntables, curated gallery shots, and panoramas, serving thousands of users cost effectively and enhancing your image workflows. 

This enables applications to operate more efficiently by serving thousands of end users images from one instance, then upgrading users to 3D based on their on-site behaviour, segment, profile or instance availability. Image on Demand mode also includes image caching and CDN for simple and efficient use. 

As well as 3D Streaming and Image on Demand mode, developers can extend their application to further use cases, such as immersive CloudXR and post-experience personalised digital content. 

3. Easy developer experience

OmniStream’s developer tools, plugins, management portal, debug tools, and reporting, allow application developers to work quickly, efficiently and independently. 

Here’s what’s included in OmniStream’s developer toolset:

Intuitive Unreal and Unity plugins 

Unreal and Unity plugins are available on the ZeroLight GitHub and allow developers to quickly and easily upload their application to OmniStream from within their editor. 

Extensive logging and debugging tools 

Access to engine and instance logs, including the Instance X-Ray feature, which allows developers to easily debug projects and identify performance improvements, either on their own or with ZeroLight’s support. The Stream Diagnostics tool also allows developers to quickly identify stream connectivity issues.

Self-managed instances 

Self-managed application deployments to instances with blue-green deploys through the OmniStream Portal, including instance capacity management and usage metrics. 

Complete Javascript library 

Ready-to-use and fully documented JavaScript library (vanilla and React versions) for web page integration, providing easy control of the streaming experience to web developers.  

One-click stream launch 

One-click launch of a stream for any deployed application, launched and viewed in the OmniStream Portal for developer use and internal review. 

Easy access usage reporting

Access to reporting at account, project and render service level I, including usage reports, concurrency reporting and billing.

Comprehensive documentation and support 

Full documentation and direct access to OmniStream developers for integration support and issue resolution.

4. We are OmniStream’s biggest customer

OmniStream is built by application developers, for application developers. Unlike other streaming providers, ZeroLight has been building and streaming our own applications at scale for over 7 years. 

This puts our platform in a uniquely strong position as it’s been designed to meet the complex needs of application developers, and means our team is uniquely placed to help them get the best from their application and streaming integration.

5. Low per-minute pricing with cost optimisation features

OmniStream has simple, low pricing charged per minute of usage with no additional platform fees, consultancy fees, onboarding fees or support fees. 

A range of features and complementary services also allow OmniStream customers to optimise their projects and spend less than they do with other streaming providers.

These include dynamic application switching, fast instance recycling, capacity capping, dynamic scaling, fast loading instances, detailed usage reports and free provisioning advice.

6. Robust and resilient streaming

OmniStream’s advanced back-end systems for automated monitoring, reporting, quarantining, self-healing, and replacing instances, as well as our dedicated DevOps team, ensure applications remain online, accessible and performant.

7. Certified security and architecture

ZeroLight and OmniStream have multiple sources of certification and validation for providing enterprise standard solutions with the highest levels of security and architecture. 

From AWS, ZeroLight has 3 Industry Software Competencies, Foundational Technical Review accreditation for 2 products including OmniStream, ISV partner status, program partner status for AWS ISV Workload Migration and multiple developer and architect certifications.

ZeroLight also holds and maintains valid TISAX certification for working with Confidential data, details of which can be found here, as well as up-to-date ISO27001:2022 certification.

Please get in touch with the ZeroLight team to start your OmniStream free trial and unleash your Unreal Engine, Unity, or Autodesk VRED application with enterprise standard cloud streaming.

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