8i

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.

8i is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Volumetric Video, Holograms, 3D, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality.

8i’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, changelog, and 13 more developer resources.

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19.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 0/100 dormant library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Volumetric VideoHolograms3D Augmented Reality Virtual Reality WebXR Streaming Media Video Entertainment Company

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.9 — up to +11.4 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
XR & Graphics (XR, 3D, GPU graphics)	undeclared	-	-	-
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

8i WebPlayer

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 c...

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

8I Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Conformance

Conventions

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

About

Press

Careers

Source (apis.yml)

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
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'
x-docs-platform: sphinx
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-17
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

8i API — frequently asked questions

Does 8i have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from 8i, including 8i WebPlayer.

Is the 8i API ready for AI agents?

8i has a Kin Score of 19.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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