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High-quality<br \/>\nVR systems generate graphics data at a data rate much higher than<br \/>\nthose supported by existing wireless-communication products such<br \/>\nas Wi-Fi and 60GHz wireless communication. The necessary image<br \/>\nencoding, makes it challenging to maintain the stringent VR latency<br \/>\nrequirements. To achieve the required latency, our system employs a<br \/>\nParallel Rendering and Streaming mechanism to reduce the add-on<br \/>\nstreaming latency, by pipelining the rendering, encoding, transmission<br \/>\nand decoding procedures. Furthermore, we introduce a Remote<br \/>\nVSync Driven Rendering technique to minimize display latency. To<br \/>\nevaluate the system, we implement an end-to-end remote rendering<br \/>\nplatform on commodity hardware over a 60Ghz wireless network.<br \/>\nResults show that the system can support current 2160&#215;1200 VR<br \/>\nresolution at 90Hz with less than 16ms end-to-end latency, and<br \/>\n4K resolution with 20ms latency, while keeping a visually lossless<br \/>\nimage quality to the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper introduces an end-to-end untethered VR system design and open platform that can meet virtual reality latency and quality requirements at 4K resolution over a wireless link. High-quality VR systems generate graphics data at a data rate much higher than those supported by existing wireless-communication products such as Wi-Fi and 60GHz wireless communication. 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