Title
Unlocking the Door to Mobile Social VR: Architecture, Experiments and Challenges.
Abstract
VR redefines the well known social network by introducing impressive environment sharing and revolutionary face-to-face interaction. Benefiting from better mobility and affordability, mobile social VR is gaining popularity; however, very little is known about how and how well it performs. In this article, we characterize the workflow of mobile social VR, propose a tentative architecture by drawing lessons from well known techniques, and implement this architecture as a prototype. To analyze mobile social VR's performance and identify potential bottlenecks, we conduct experiments to evaluate and decouple the prototype. We observe that mobile social VR's performance mainly depends on the scene it renders, and existing high-end mobile devices exhaust most GPU resources but still offer poor experience for complicated scenes. Finally, we highlight the major challenges and prospects for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MNET.2017.1700014
IEEE Network
Keywords
Field
DocType
Servers,Mobile communication,Avatars,Three-dimensional displays,Streaming media,Solid modeling,Rendering (computer graphics)
Architecture,Social network,Computer science,Popularity,Server,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Solid modeling,Workflow,Mobile telephony
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
1
0890-8044
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lan-Shan Zhang100.34
Linhui Sun210.68
Wendong Wang382172.69
Jiangchuan Liu44340310.86