Intel - Intel 5G Network Visualization

Intel needed a way to make 5G legible to people standing in a room full of server racks and antennas, where the thing being sold is bandwidth, latency and edge compute rather than anything you can look at. The answer was to draw the network in the space itself.

Wearing a Magic Leap headset, the visitor sees a pipeline connecting the rack to the antenna to the cloud to a headset. Bandwidth is the diameter of a translucent column of light and traffic is the white particles moving through it, so stepping from 4G to 5G widens the column while the same volume of data now fills only half of it. A separate edge-computing view opens a short direct link between the headset and the antenna while the link out to the cloud thins away, and a latency view multiplies the connection lines out to several headsets to show what happens at scale. Parts of the experience were driven by live readings from the network in the room rather than by canned animation.

We delivered to both the Magic Leap and an Android tablet build, and handled the on-site setup and the integration work needed to get live network data into the headset.