
“Mobile operators will play a key role in their development, but without a common approach and industry-wide collaboration we risk fragmenting the market from the beginning. “Both VR and AR are disruptive forms of immersive multimedia that, combined with operator edge cloud and 5G connectivity, will transform the cost structures of the enterprise and entertainment fields,” said Alex Sinclair, chief technology officer, GSMA. The fundamental aim is to encourage all parties to collaborate on accelerating the delivery and deployment of 5G cloud-based AR/VR services, which may well appear in earnest from next year. In addition, infrastructure and device partners Huawei and HTC are weighing in with their support. The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum will focus on the development of technologies, services and support in this space, and is backed by the likes of China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI, KT Corp., NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, Telefónica, Telenor, TIM, Turkcell and Vodafone. In the first of a new monthly series of ‘Operator View’ articles by freelance telecoms writer, Antony Savvas reports that the GSMA has recently focused on making sure the telecoms industry is in prime position to support a potentially major part of the mobile edge market, and that’s Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). But what about the applications and services at the front end of the business?

This is different from previous years, when there were fewer battlegrounds, and a battleground's holiday fell on the same weekend every month.Īs of Patch 3.3.3, battleground holidays are referred to as "Call to Arms".Īs of Patch 4.3.4, battleground holidays have the following cycle of events:

So the battleground featured on the first weekend of the month, for example, can be different from month to month. Each weekend, the next battleground in the cycle is selected. Occasionally, the sequence has been updated to include newer battlegrounds, in addition to older battlegrounds. You can find the current schedule of battleground holidays on the calendar for your character when logged-in on the official web site.īattleground holidays follow a rotating sequence.

These increases were explained in an official posting on the forums in December 2007 by Nethaera, and can be found below. During a holiday, emissaries from the featured battleground are found in the major cities, and honor & faction rewards for performing objectives in that battleground are increased. Battleground holidays occur during all weekends, starting on Thursday night at Midnight and continuing until early Tuesday morning.
