[nesky]

5G will need it's iPhone moment.

In my opinion that will be gaming, sports and live events in cutting edge quality VR applications. If consumers can buy a 'digital ticket' and watch the World Cup, Superbowl, Indy 500, Le Mans, etc. in whatever cutting edge quality exists at the time in VR you'll have that moment. You'll be able to buy digital season tickets for the NY Yankees right on the 3rd base line (your friends will be there next to you represented by their memoji or the like so you're still watching the game with your buddies), buy a ticket for an Indy Car race and be able to watch the race in VR as if I was sitting in Alexander Rossi's seat from start to finish. The next question is how much will I have to pay to not have commercial breaks...

[gambiting]

I just don't understand what that has to do with 5G. You could build such a thing already just using WiFi, and yet....no one has done so. I mean, where are people likely to sit and use that VR headset and watch a world cup? On a sofa in their home where they have fast wi-fi, or on a park bench where they have to rely on 5G?

[nesky]

If you have 1M people around the world checking into a VR camera atop a car going around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 200MPH you need bandwidth and image quality. I want to see what the driver see's in near perfect image quality and be able to look around when he goes wheel to wheel around a turn. The entire layer of crap that's fed from whatever service, NBC, ABC, ESPN, etc will flatten and the consumer will be able to watch the event as if they were in the action themselves. 5G will help in driving that engagement.

EDIT: Given how crazy America is about football, my guess as well is the NFL could sell millions of VR related tickets to the Superbowl in a similar scheme. The hitch in my opinion is commercial breaks will ruin the experience if commercials as they're broadcasted today happen in VR - people will want to plug themselves into the action with no obstructions.

[redisman]

Again, you're just describing Wifi plus unspecified VR magic. Why do you need 5G for this at home VR thing?

[iamaelephant]

Please explain what this has to do with 5G. Be specific.