Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) is now a well-established technology which offers realistic and immersive virtual worlds to the user usually by means of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). Actually, these devices can also be backed by a cloud server which can host the game server or even directly render the virtual world, as in the well-known cloud gaming paradigm. However, due to the drastically low latencies that technology requires, it is more convenient, when possible, to use servers that are as close to the users as possible. As a consequence, implementing the game or the render server in the Fog Computing layer is a concrete possibility. In this paper, we investigate, by using the Meta Quest 2 device, which are the QoE trade-offs, in terms of graphic quality and network performance, both in the case in which the HMD performs the 3d rendering locally by using a sample game written with Unreal Engine and in the case in which the 3d rendering is done in the Fog by means of the nVidia CloudXR framework and Oculus Air Link.

Citation

Maiorano, G., Proietti Mattia, G., & Beraldi, R. (2022, October). Local and remote fog based trade-offs for QOE in VR applications by using CloudXR and Oculus air link. International Conference on Edge Computing and Applications (ICECAA 2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECAA55415.2022.9936495

@inproceedings{2022MaioranoLocal,
  title = {Local and remote fog based trade-offs for QOE in VR applications by using CloudXR and Oculus air link},
  author = {Maiorano, Gabriele and {Proietti Mattia}, Gabriele and Beraldi, Roberto},
  year = {2022},
  month = oct,
  booktitle = {International Conference on Edge Computing and Applications (ICECAA 2022)},
  address = {Namakkal, India},
  doi = {10.1109/ICECAA55415.2022.9936495},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9936495/},
  keywords = {VR; AR; Edge Computing; Fog Computing}
}