Drone Streaming with Wi-Fi Grid Aggregation for Virtual Tour
This work addresses the challenge of interactive virtual tours for users seeking immersive remote experiences, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing drone and streaming technologies.
The authors tackled the problem of providing a live, high-quality virtual touring experience by proposing a drone streaming system using a Wi-Fi grid for aggregation, enabling active user control and stereoscopic viewing with a head-mounted display.
To provide a live, active and high-quality virtual touring streaming experience, we propose an unmanned drone stereoscopic streaming paradigm using a control and streaming infrastructure of a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi grid. Our system allows users to actively control the streaming captured by a drone, receive and watch the streaming using a head mount display (HMD); a Wi-Fi grid is deployed across the remote scene with multi-channel support to enable high-bitrate stream- ing broadcast from the drones. The system adopt a joint view adaptation and drone control scheme to enable fast viewer movement including both head rotation and touring. We implement the prototype on Dji M100 quadcopter and HTC Vive in a demo scene.