An Image-Space Split-Rendering Approach to Accelerate Low-Powered Virtual Reality

Current mobile GPUs lack the computing power needed to support high end VR rendering. As an alternative, frames can be rendered on a server and streamed to a thin client, but this approach can incur high end-to-end latency due to processing and network requirements. We propose a networked split-rendering approach using an image-space division of labour between a server and a heavy client to achieve faster end-to-end image presentation rates on the mobile device while preserving image quality.