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SoftBank, Ericsson, Qualcomm test real low-latency 5G in Tokyo. XR streaming without the lag

SoftBank, Ericsson Japan, and Qualcomm Technologies ran a field trial in Tokyo on a live commercial 5G SA network. Not a demo network. Not a lab. Actual city traffic. The focus was low latency communication using a mix of 5G and 5G-Advanced features, including L4S. The use case was XR streaming on smart glasses. They picked XR for a reason. Even small delays break the experience. The trial was about one question. Can current 5G SA networks actually support real-time XR without choking. The setup was practical. Smart glasses were connected to a smartphone over Wi-Fi. That smartphone connected to a commercial 5G base station in Tokyo. Data moved between the devices and an application server on the internet. Nothing fancy. Just real conditions. XR content was streamed end to…