Towards Collaborative Photorealistic VR Meeting Rooms
This addresses the need for efficient virtual environment creation in VR applications, though it appears incremental in method.
The paper tackles the problem of high cost and time in creating realistic 3D virtual environments by proposing a low-cost, high-quality solution using augmented spherical images for photorealistic VR meeting rooms.
When designing 3D applications it is necessary to find a compromise between cost (e.g. money, time) and achievable realism of the virtual environment. Reusing existing assets has an impact on the uniqueness of the application and creating high quality 3D assets is very time consuming and expensive. We aim for a low cost, high quality and minimal time effort solution to create virtual environments. This paper's main contribution is a novel way of creating a virtual meeting application by utilizing augmented spherical images for photo realistic virtual environments.