Creating the Perfect Illusion : What will it take to Create Life-Like Virtual Reality Headsets?
- Eduardo Cuervo ,
- Krishna Chintalapudi ,
- Manikanta Kotaru
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Published by Association for Computing Machinery
As Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Displays (HMD) push the
boundaries of technology, in this paper, we try and answer the
question, “What would it take to make the visual experience of a
VR-HMD Life-Like, i.e., indistinguishable from physical reality?”
Based on the limits of human perception, we first try and establish
the specifications for a Life-Like HMD. We then examine crucial
technological trends and speculate on the feasibility of Life-Like VR
headsets in the near future. Our study indicates that while display
technology will be capable of Life-Like VR, rendering computation
is likely to be the key bottleneck. Life-Like VR solutions will likely
involve frames rendered on a separate machine and then transmit-
ted to the HMD. Can we transmit Life-Like VR frames wirelessly
to the HMD and make the HMD cable-free? We find that current
wireless and compression technology may not be sufficient to ac-
commodate the bandwidth and latency requirements. We outline
research directions towards achieving Life-Like VR.
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