Hololight Hub Cloud regions

Objectives

  • Know which regions support hosting Hololight Hub Cloud application instances.

  • Understand machine instance availability by region in Hololight Hub Cloud.

  • Understand the capabilities of the available types of machines.

  • Understand that machine types may work better with certain XR client devices despite their performance rating.

  • Be able to better evaluate when to use what regions to host application sessions based on the situation.

Hololight Hub Cloud regions

Map showing the available locations for starting a Hololight Hub Cloud application session, along with information about the types of machine instances that will host those sessions.

You can start a Hololight Hub Cloud application session in the following regions:

  • California, USA

  • North Virginia, USA

  • Dublin, Ireland

  • Frankfurt, Germany

  • Tokyo, Japan

The region you choose can affect the quality of the connection between Hololight Hub Client and the session. The most important factor here is the location of the session relative to the location of the user connecting with Hololight Hub Client. A user in Philadelphia connecting to a session running in California will have a different experience than a user in Seoul connecting to that same session.

The machine type a region uses to host application sessions also affects session performance. Each region uses one of two types of machine instances. We rate machine types as either "High" or "Medium". These ratings show the machine types' relative performance power. Machine types labeled "High" will run more complex applications better than those labeled "Medium".

Additionally, we recommend certain machine types when using specific XR devices. For example, machine types rated "Medium" provide a better experience when using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 compared to the Meta Quest 3. Use the table below to find which region has the machine type that works best with the device you want to use.

The following table shows which machine type is used in which region, the GPU the machine type uses, the machine type’s performance level, and which client device we suggest using when connecting to sessions in that region:

Hololight Hub Cloud machine type information by region

Region

Machine type

GPU

Machine type performance level

Suggested device

California, USA

G4dn

NVIDIA T4

Medium

Microsoft HoloLens 2

North Virginia, USA

G6

NVIDIA L4

High

Meta Quest 3

Dublin, Ireland

G4dn

NVIDIA T4

Medium

Microsoft HoloLens 2

Frankfurt, Germany

G6

NVIDIA L4

High

Meta Quest 3

Tokyo, Japan

G6

NVIDIA L4

High

Meta Quest 3

When choosing a region for your application session, you should take the following factors into consideration:

  • The location of the application session relative to the client device, so you can reduce latency.

  • The machine type available at a region, so you can anticipate whether the application has enough resources to provide a smooth experience.

  • The machine type available at a region that best suits the client device you want to use.

Hololight Hub Cloud machine type details

The following table shows the technical specifications for the machine types available for hosting application sessions in Hololight Hub Cloud:

Hololight Hub Cloud machine type technical specifications

Machine type

vCPU

Number of vCPUs

RAM

GPU

G4dn

AMD EPYC 7R13

16

64 GB

NVIDIA L4

G6

Intel Xeon P-8259L

16

64 GB

NVIDIA T4 GPU (16 GB vRAM)

Currently, Hololight Hub Cloud uses machine instances provided through Amazon Web Service’s EC2 service. For more information on EC2 instances, check out Amazon EC2 instance types.