From the 12th to the 15th September, 5G-MAG is at IBC 2025 , the biggest media technology event in Europe. We wish to meet everybody there. Join us! We have several activities to highlight, including demos powered by the 5G-MAG Reference Tools , the FUTURE MEDIA TOWNHALL, our traditional Meet & Greet (this time including & Eat) and more activities. Find all the information at: www.5g-mag.com/ibc

We are happy to announce ERICSSON joining the 5G-MAG Reference Tools Developer Community. WELCOME ON BOARD! 5g-mag.com/community

We are very happy to announce the  release of version 1.0.0 of the MBS Transport Function for 5MBS User Services . Version 1.0.0 is the first minimum viable product release of the MBSTF that forms part of the 5MBS User Services. We are working on a separate release of the MBS Function which will control this MBSTF and act as the provisioning entry point for 5MBS User Services. This release can be configured, via the Nmb2 reference point (MBSF <=> MBSTF), with  DistSession s that use the  PUSH  or  PULL  acquisition methods for the  SINGLE  and  STREAMING  distribution operating modes. The  STREAMING  distribution operating mode can only cope with live profile DASH manifests in this release. The repository can be found at: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-mbs-transport-function The release including the release notes can be found here:  https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-mbs-transport-function/releases/tag/rt-mbs-transport-function-1.0.0 A detailed tutorial and a demo video can be found on our documentation website: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/5g-multicast-broadcast-services/tutorials.html Information on the overall project is hosted here: 5G Multicast Broadcast Services | 5G-MAG - Reference Tools A big thank you to all the contributors of the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. In particular the colleagues from BBC R&D: David Waring, Dev Audsin and Richard Bradbury. This reference implementation of the MBSTF interworks with previous work developed by colleagues from iTEAM-UPV: Borja Iñesta and Jaime Sanchez, with the support of Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS and 5G-MAG Reference Tools Developer Coordinator).

Initial contribution on 5G Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS) support in 5G-MAG Reference Tools from Borja Iñesta (iTEAM-UPV). Information on the related Reference Tools project: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/5g-multicast-broadcast-services/ VIDEO

We have just released the initial version of the Reference Tools 5G Data Collection Application Function and Data Collection Service Provider library. This is a minimum viable product release and as such only supports a subset of features for Data Collection Reporting and Event Exposure, as specified in TS 26.532 and TS 29.517. Supported features are: Provisioning Sessions API (interface at reference R1). Event data access filtering/aggregation on time axis only, geographic and user/group based access is not implemented as yet. Data Reporting Sessions API (interfaces at references R2, R3 & R4). Data reporting for COMMUNICATION reports. Event Subscription API (interfaces at references R5 & R6). Event Reporting for UE_COMM events. Information about the project can be found at: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/ue-data-collection-reporting-exposure/ The repository can be found at: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-data-collection-application-function This release can be found at: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-data-collection-application-function/releases/tag/rt-data-collection-application-function-1.0.0 Thank you to the contributors David Waring  ( BBC ), Dev Audsin  ( BBC ), Richard Bradbury  ( BBC ).

We are happy to announce the XR Player v1.0.0 which provides initial support for the MPEG_anchor extensions to glTF format on Android smartphones. Initial support for augmented reality, overlaying a scene or a node on top of a real world view, anchoring their position to objects detected : 👉 support for anchoring to 2D markers 👉 support for anchoring to the floor 👉 support for anchoring to horizontal/vertical planes 👉 support for anchoring to the viewer and controllers 👉 support for anchoring to geospatial coordinnates See also the rt-xr-player complete feature list. Build & usage instructions are available on the Getting Started XR section: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/xr-media-integration-in-5g/usage/xr-player-android.html The test content repository has been updated with relevant scenes to support this release: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-xr-content A pre-compiled .apk for arm64 smartphones can be found on the github release page: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-xr-unity-player/releases/tag/v1.0.0 It requires Android 9.0 – API Level 28 - or above, and has been tested on Google Pixel 8 smartphones. Please give it a try and provide feedback through issues on the rt-xr-player repository issues :  https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-xr-unity-player/issues Thank you to the contributions from Etienne Faivre d'Arcier  ( InterDigital, Inc. ) and Nils Duval  ( Motion Spell ).

We are happy to announce new releases of the 5G   Media   Streaming  Architecture. We have released version 1.4.3 of the 5GMS   Application   Function  and version 1.2.4 of the 5GMS   Application   Server  which both uplift the implemented interfaces to match 3GPP  TS 26.512 V17.10.0. The new release of the 5GMS AF can be found at: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-5gms-application-function/releases/tag/rt-5gms-application-function-v1.4.3 The new release of the 5GMS AS can be found at: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-5gms-application-server/releases/tag/rt-5gms-application-server-1.2.4 These releases are already supported in our Docker  Compose recipe  for 5G Media Streaming announced last week. This contains an Application   Function , an Application   Server  and the Application   Provider  management UI. The Docker based setup can be found on Github: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-5gms-examples/tree/main/5gms-docker-setup . An end to end setup guide can be found in our tutorial section: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-5gms-examples/tree/main/5gms-docker-setup Thank you to all the contributors of the reference tools and in the context of 5G Media Streaming especially David Waring  ( BBC ), Dev Audsin  ( BBC ), Richard Bradbury  ( BBC ), Shilin Ding  ( Qualcomm ), Thomas Stockhammer  ( Qualcomm ), Vuk Stojkovic, Kurt Krauss  ( Dolby Laboratories ), Giuseppe Crisci  ( Dolby Laboratories ) and Jordi Joan Giménez  ( 5G-MAG Media Action Group ) More documentation available at developer.5g-mag.com and https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/

We are happy to announce the first release of 5G Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS) as part of the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. This release provides reference implementations of an MB-UPF, MB-SMF as extensions of the UPF and SMF of the Open5GS project. In addition it provides an initial implementation of AMF, gNB and UE with MBS. A simple AF/AS allows testing the setup. A tutorial is provided here: Initial MBS support in the 5GC | 5G-MAG - Reference Tools This initial functionalities of MBS support in the 5G Core, RAN and UE are complemented by Docker images and Docker Compose deployments to test the whole setup. This is a contribution from Borja Iñesta Hernández  and  Jaime Sánchez Roldán , from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)  to the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. Access the project information here: 5G Multicast Broadcast (MBS)

We are happy to announce new releases of our XR projects supporting reference implementation of MPEG-I Standards (ISO/IEC 23090). This time we provide updates to two repositories: XR Unity Player: This release introduces media pipeline support  on Android, enabling features like video textures and spatial audio sources . A significant change is that the Packages/rt.xr.maf package is no longer a pre-compiled dependency via a git submodule . Instead, it now requires compilation from source , and the resulting build artifacts must be manually copied to the project. The majority of the implementation for this release resides in the media pipelines repository , which contains the core Media Access Function (MAF) library and its associated media pipeline plugins. Blender Exporter: This release introduces initial support for defining and exporting XR anchors  as MPEG_anchor glTF extensions . The Blender exporter now allows defining various trackable types, including floor, viewer, controller, plane, 2D markers, geo markers, and application anchors . These exported scenes are compatible with the latest XR Player application , and the addon is compatible with the latest Blender LTS release . Access the release information through the following links: https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-xr-unity-player/releases https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-xr-blender-exporter/releases This is a contribution from Nils Duval building on the work started by Qualcomm and InterDigital. Access the project information here: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/xr-media-integration-in-5g/

We are happy to announce that version 1.1.0 of the Data Collection Application Function (DCAF) has been released. Version 1.1.0 adds a support for using the Data Collection Application Function with Docker and the Insomnia REST client. A detailed tutorial and a demo video can be found on our documentation website: https://5g-mag.github.io/Getting-Started/pages/ue-data-collection-reporting-exposure/tutorials/docker-with-insomnia.html The official release including the release notes can be found directly on GitHub:  https://github.com/5G-MAG/rt-data-collection-application-function/releases/tag/rt-data-collection-application-function-1.1.0 A big thank you to all the contributors of the 5G-MAG Reference Tools,  David Waring  ( BBC ),  Dev Audsin  ( BBC ),  Richard Bradbury  ( BBC ) and Daniel Silhavy ( Fraunhofer FOKUS ).

We are happy to announce the public release of the V3C Immersive Platform integrating: support for MPEG Haptics as defined in ISO/IEC 23090-31 and carriage of haptics data as defined in ISO/IEC 23090-32: Both .hjif and .hmpg file formats Support for vibrations with time, duration and intensity. Synchronized with the video. Modularization of the networking interface: Plug-in for MPEG DASH Ability to add plug-ins for WebRTC, RTP, etc. This milestone comes alongside the public release of the three repositories that form the project: rt-v3c-unity-player rt-v3c-decoder-plugin rt-v3c-content Not e that beside MPEG Haptics, the V3C Immersive Platform supports: V3C decoder and renderer of V-PCC bitstream V3C MIV (MPI) bitstream (23090-12) local playback on Windows and Android V3C MIV (MVD) bitstream (23090-12) Carriage of V3C data (23090-10) V3C DASH streaming (Client) on Windows and Android A detailed tutorial and a demo video can be found on our documentation website: Tutorials | 5G-MAG - Reference Tools Information on the overall project is hosted here: V3C Immersive Platform | 5G-MAG - Reference Tools A big thank you to all the contributors of the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. In particular (and with the risk of forgetting someone), Patrick Fontaine (InterDigital), Bart Kroon (Philips), Bertrand Leroy (InterDigital), Thierry Filoche (InterDigital), Ralf Schaefer (InterDigital) and other colleagues, with the support of Nils Duval (Motion Spell).

A perfect way to end the week: The  5G-MAG  Reference Tools community is inviting you to a special session on Friday 6th June at 13:00 CEST We have scheduled the following exciting presentations: 👉 XR Reference Tools Development Updates - Nils Duval  ( Motion Spell ) 👉 Bringing stage events with real actors to your home in VR - A low complexity solution for immersive media streaming - Joachim Keinert  ( Fraunhofer IIS ) 👉 V3C Player version 0.6 with haptics support - Bart Kroon  ( Philips ), Bertrand Leroy  ( InterDigital, Inc. ) 👉 Enabling Portable XR Experiences Across Devices and Networks: Where OpenXR Meets 5G Media Architecture -  Frédéric Plourde  (XR Lead at Collabora  and The Khronos Group  OpenXR Outreach Officer) EVENT: 5G-MAG FRIDAY'S PUBLIC CALL DATE: 6th June 2025 at 13:00 CET LOCATION: ONLINE Use this link to join the session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86380468460?pwd=UnlGOVE5a3RUSnNCcFRGK0RmQlRHdz09  or Download the calendar of public calls here:  https://www.5g-mag.com/community#calendar