Networked Multi-user Augmented Reality

Qi Han

qhan@mines.edu

Networked robots are the needed cost-effective medium to support dynamic sensor capture and help usher in the next generation of societal VR/AR applications including training/education, medical rehabilitation, first responders, remote monitoring for the weather and environmental sciences and large-scale infrastructures, and transportation. This course is an exploratory study to use networked AR for underground safety, aiming to answer the following questions: what are the fundamental performance limits/bottlenecks of networked VR/AR? Will innovations be required at all layers of the protocol stack to help overcome them and what will be the required novel network architectures? Are network bandwidth and latency the only major performance factors and which one is more relevant? How can system and network scalability and end-to-end reliability be introduced for such demanding applications?

Grand Challenge: Enhance virtual reality.

This will be achieved via various activities, including reading papers and working with actual hardware to conduct experiments. HTTP://pecs.mines.edu

Qi Han