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 publishes 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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19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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Volumetric VideoHolograms3DAugmented RealityVirtual RealityWebXRStreamingMediaVideoEntertainmentCompany

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Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

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APIs 1

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

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.
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: '0.20'
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

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