CloudVR: Cloud Accelerated Interactive Mobile Virtual Reality

Teemu Kämäräinen; Matti Siekkinen; Jukka Eerikäinen; Antti Ylä-Jääski

doi:10.1145/3240508.3240620

CloudVR: Cloud Accelerated Interactive Mobile Virtual Reality

Teemu Kämäräinen
, Matti Siekkinen
, Jukka Eerikäinen
, Antti Ylä-Jääski

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

57 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

High quality immersive Virtual Reality experience currently requires a PC setup with cable connected head mounted display, which is expensive and restricts user mobility. This paper presents CloudVR which is a system for cloud accelerated interactive mobile VR. It is designed to provide short rotation and interaction latencies through panoramic rendering and dynamic object placement. CloudVR also includes rendering optimizations to reduce server-side computational load and bandwidth requirements between the server and client. Performance measurements with a CloudVR prototype suggest that the optimizations make it possible to double the server's framerate and halve the amount of bandwidth required and that small objects can be quickly moved at run time to client device for rendering to provide shorter interaction latency. A small-scale user study indicates that CloudVR users do not notice small network latencies (20ms) and even much longer ones (100-200ms) become non-trivial to detect when they do not affect the interaction with objects. Finally, we present a design of CloudVR extension to multi-user scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1181-1189
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5665-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3240508.3240620
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	ACM International Conference on Multimedia - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 22 Oct 2018 → 26 Oct 2018 Conference number: 26

Conference

Conference	ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Abbreviated title	MM
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	22/10/2018 → 26/10/2018

Keywords

cloud
edge computing
optimization
rendering
unity
virtual reality

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Latency-Critical Mobile Multimedia Services and Applications
Siekkinen, M. (Principal investigator), Mehrabidavoodabadi, A. (Project Member), Ylä-Jääski, A. (Project Member), Illahi, G. (Project Member), Xu, J. (Project Member), Zhu, C. (Project Member) & Kämäräinen, T. (Project Member)
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Mobile Crowdsensing in Ubiquitous Cloud Environment
Ylä-Jääski, A. (Principal investigator), Ylipiha, T. (Project Member), Kämäräinen, T. (Project Member), Yang, R. (Project Member), Vu, B. (Project Member), Ou, Z. (Project Member), Siekkinen, M. (Project Member), Looga, V. (Project Member) & Li, M. (Project Member)
01/09/2014 → 31/08/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding

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CloudVR: Cloud Accelerated Interactive Mobile Virtual Reality. / Kämäräinen, Teemu; Siekkinen, Matti; Eerikäinen, Jukka et al.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. p. 1181-1189.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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