Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2017

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Efficient Remote Rendering Using Equirectangular Projection
(The Eurographics Association, 2017) McNamee, Josh; Debattista, Kurt; Chalmers, Alan; Tao Ruan Wan and Franck Vidal
Presenting high quality Virtual Reality (VR) experiences on head-mounted displays (HMDs) requires significant computational requirements. To ensure a high-fidelity experience, the displayed images must be highly accurate, detailed and respond with a very low latency. In order to achieve high-fidelity realistic experiences, advantage needs to be taken of remote high performance computing resources. This paper presents a novel method of streaming high-fidelity graphics content from a remote physically accurate renderer to an HMD. In particular, an equirectangular projection is transmitted from the cloud to a client, so that latency-free 360° observations can be made within a viewpoint.