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An Interactive Virtual Reality System with a Wireless Head-Mounted Display

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Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 393))

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) with head-mounted display (HMD) device provides an immersive experience for novel multimedia applications. This paper develops an interactive virtual reality system with a wireless HMD to enable a natural VR operation interface. In a server, the system utilizes the Kinect as a motion detection device to estimate VR user’s location and gesture information in real time. Through a WiFi network, the user’s information is transferred to the HMD as a client, where the user controls an avatar following his motion. The controlled avatar interacts with the virtual environment in real time. The proposed system is implemented using a Samsung Gear VR, Kinect 2.0 and Unity3D environment. This system is compatible with serious games, virtual and physical collaboration, natural user interfaces, and other multimedia applications.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61503005), and by SRF for ROCS, SEM.

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  1. Department of Digital Media Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China

    Shujia Hao, Wei Song & Kaisi Huang

  2. Department of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea

    Yulong Xi, Kyungeun Cho & Kyhyun Um

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Correspondence to Wei Song .

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  1. Computer Science and Engg., Seoul National Uni. of Sci. & Techn. Computer Science and Engg., Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Comp. Science and Technology, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology School of Comp. Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Hai Jin

  3. Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Dongguk University Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Sik Jeong

  4. College of Computer & Information Sci, King Saud University College of Computer & Information Sci, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

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Hao, S., Song, W., Huang, K., Xi, Y., Cho, K., Um, K. (2016). An Interactive Virtual Reality System with a Wireless Head-Mounted Display. In: Park, J., Jin, H., Jeong, YS., Khan, M. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 393. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1536-6_27

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