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Photorealistic Cloud XR

Split-Rendering Between Cloud GPUs & Lightweight AR Glasses

Distributing the heavy 3D rendering workload between powerful cloud data center GPUs and ultra-lightweight smart glasses over a 6G link.

Technical Explanation

Photorealistic graphics require massive, power-hungry desktop GPUs that generate excessive heat and drain batteries, making stylish, all-day wearable AR glasses impossible. Photorealistic Cloud XR solves this via Split-Rendering: massive cloud GPU clusters render the complex photorealistic lighting, ray-tracing, and geometry; the 6G network streams the rendered video frames to lightweight glasses; and the glasses perform local pose-prediction and micro-reprojection.

Key Functions

  • Offloading heavy photorealistic ray-tracing graphics to powerful cloud GPU clusters
  • Enabling stylish, lightweight, all-day wearable AR glasses weighing under 50 grams
  • Sub-10 millisecond motion-to-photon latency preserving visual immersion without motion sickness
  • Edge-assisted asynchronous time-warp and pose-reprojection compensating for network jitter
  • Massive reduction in wearable device power consumption and thermal heat dissipation
Specifications
3GPP Rel-19 TR 26.832 (Split Rendering for XR), IEEE VR Standards
Interfaces
CloudXR-Stream-APIPose-Feedback-Bus

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