aid: 8i
name: 8i
description: '8i is a volumetric video company that captures, transforms, and streams
  photorealistic holograms of real people for AR, VR, WebXR, and mobile experiences.
  It sells the ASPX hologram capture stages (cameras, lights, sync boxes, calibration
  and recording software), a transformation pipeline that encodes captures into its
  PAT mesh-based codec with MPD/MPEG-DASH, glTF and FBX outputs, and a streaming layer
  that distributes holograms over CDN with shareable links, DRM and viewer analytics.
  Developers integrate 8i holograms through the 8i Unity Plugin, the 8i Unreal Plugin,
  and the embeddable 8i WebPlayer (volcap-player.js), which exposes an A-Frame hologram
  component and a THREE.js EightiHologram class with adaptive-bitrate DASH/HLS playback,
  clearkey DRM, and WebXR / 8th Wall augmented reality.'
image: https://8i.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Middle-Logo2.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/8i/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Volumetric Video
- Holograms
- 3D
- Augmented Reality
- Virtual Reality
- WebXR
- Streaming
- Media
- Video
- Entertainment
- Company
apis:
- aid: 8i:webplayer
  name: 8i WebPlayer
  description: 'The 8i WebPlayer (volcap-player.js) is an embeddable browser player
    for 8i PAT volumetric content, served from the 8i CDN and documented publicly.
    It ships an A-Frame hologram component and a THREE.js EightiHologram class with
    documented attributes, properties, methods and playback events, adaptive-bitrate
    MPEG-DASH streaming (HLS on Safari), clearkey DRM, and WebXR / 8th Wall AR support.
    It is a client-side library rather than an HTTP API: 8i publishes no OpenAPI, GraphQL
    SDL, or other machine-readable contract for it.'
  humanURL: https://8i.github.io/embeddable_webplayer/#/
  baseURL: https://player.8i.com
  tags:
  - Volumetric Video
  - WebXR
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://8i.github.io/embeddable_webplayer/#/
  - type: Demo
    url: https://player.8i.com
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/8i-changelog.yml
  - type: Components
    url: components/8i-components.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://8i.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://8iunityplugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://8i.github.io/embeddable_webplayer/#/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://8iunityplugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Quickstart.html
- type: Support
  url: https://8i.com/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://8i.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/8i
- type: About
  url: https://8i.com/about/
- type: Press
  url: https://8i.com/press/
- type: Careers
  url: https://8i.com/careers/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/8i-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/8i-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/8i-components.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/8i-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/8i-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/8i-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/8i-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/8i-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/8i-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1