Simulation of High-Visual Quality Scenes in Low-Cost Virtual Reality

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of virtual reality, many video games and virtual experiences with high-visual quality have been developed recently. Virtual reality with a high-quality representation of scenes is still an experience linked to high-cost devices. There are currently low-cost virtual reality solutions by using mobile devices, but in those cases, the visual quality of the presented virtual environments must be simplified for running on mobile devices with limited hardware characteristics. In this work, we present a novel Image-Based Rendering technique for low-cost virtual reality. We have conducted a performance evaluation of three mobile devices with different hardware characteristics. Results show that our technique represents high-visual quality virtual environments with considerably better performance compared to traditional rendering solutions.