How CORA Could Reimagine Computing
The term Create Once Reach All (CORA) refers to methods and frameworks that deliver consistent high-end user experiences on diversely powered client devices. They achieve this by leveraging the combined ecosystems of client devices, cloud services, content development, and broadband infrastructure. The desired outcomes are for content to run equally well on multiple client device solutions by supplementing their capabilities with cloud computing, and to ease the process for application makers to support cross-platform.
Why CORA Approaches Matter to Content & Application Makers
GROW
the Audience
CORA could grow market sizes because:
- Cloud-enhanced devices can do more.
- Reduced up-front costs for users to take advantage.
- Lower cost + better products = bigger audience!
DO
More
CORA approaches could enable:
- Higher quality graphics and processor-intensive applications.
- Maximized performance in all form factors.
- Immediate user-wide compute technology upgrades.
STREAMLINE
Development
CORA could simplify content development by:
- Distributing compute resources to a wider audience.
- Clearing bottlenecks and horsepower restrictions
- Reducing the amount of optimization needed between client devices.
How CORA Changes the Processing Equation
SHOWN LEFT: Compute horsepower comparison
- PC is always ahead of the pack.
- Console is 3-5 years behind PC.
- Mobile is 10 years behind PC.
With a CORA framework, all platforms are equally powered!
How Industry Could Benefit From CORA Frameworks
Tools
- Could justify specialized product development
- Tools may be able to do more for users
- More potential customers
Platform Owners
- Users could do more
- Platform supporters could do more
- New business opportunities
- Client devices could stay on platform longer
Technology Makers
- Applications in client and cloud
- New business potential
- New avenues for product innovation
- Available compute resources may expand audience potential
Cloud Service
Providers
- Expanded service offerings
- New user and subscriber markets
- New business development opportunities
- Justification for cloud services
Client
Devices
- Robust content support
- High-end user experiences for most devices
- Extended shelf life for products sold
- Could result in more business
Broadband
and 5G
- User justification for higher-tiered broadband products
- More subscriber business
- Greater ROI for infrastructure upgrades
- Motivation for continued innovation
CORA Benefits the Whole Ecosystem
Economic
Growth
- Cloud service providers could have more to sell and to more people
- Device makers could do more for their users
- Technology makers could scale more and more often
- Application and content creators could reach a bigger audience
- Infrastructures like 5G, Wifi6, and broadband could have greater justification and purpose.
Environmentally
Sound
- CORA approaches could be more energy efficient.
- Infrastructure could be environmentally friendly as it scales.
- Could reduce unnecessary E-Waste as ecosystem progresses.
- Power sources can be chosen wisely
Enables
Everyone
- Mobile immersive devices would benefit from premium compute capabilities.
- Innovators could get their compute needs right away.
- Startup to viability could happen faster for bleeding edge technologies of all sizes.
CORA approaches are entering their next generation of development. Project CORA (Create Once Reach All) is TIFCA’s CORA 2.0 proposal to enable a single piece of content to run on diversely powered client devices with a consistent high-end user experience. Project CORA aims to enable this vision by taking advantage of the capabilities of each client device, and leveraging a client, cloud, and hybrid client-cloud workload balanced compute ecosystem framework.
This bridge is a dynamic model that changes between:
- Localized compute at the client device level
- Remote computing where the content is streamed 100% from the cloud
- Hybrid where client and cloud share a threshold of processing responsibilities
With gaming as Project CORA’s first use case to examine, TIFCA aims to enhance the bridge between client and cloud so that a game is playable on a wide market of devices while delivering a consistently premium user experience. TIFCA is inviting industry leaders, architects, and engineers to collaborate on this effort.
HELD ONLINE
December 15, 2021
Why to Join TIFCA’s Project CORA
- Project CORA could increase business across the ecosystem
- Users and developers could do more
- Industry collaboration will enable the vision
The next advancements with CORA could revolutionize computing and the experiences it delivers.
Your collaboration is necessary to help enable the next generation of CORA.