It’s highly likely that VR and 360° video will soon find their way in our daily life, in context of gaming, entertainment and virtual workspaces. All these applications share one big difficulty – the need do get huge amounts of data to display the video. To solve this challenge and ensure highest video quality, with minimal startup time and no buffering, adaptive streaming technologies like MPEG-DASH and Web standards like HTML5 are a perfect fit, and enable seamless streaming of VR and 360° content.

1. Web-based Adaptive VR and
360° Video Streaming
by Reinhard Grandl @r_grandl | Bitmovin

2. VR and 360° Video - a (not so) novel concept

6. Solution:
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming?
Success depends on the implementation not the
streaming technology.

7. Adaptive Streaming and VR & 360° Video:
A Perfect Fit?

8. MSE
Media Source Extensions

13. Nearly done - ToDo:
Manifest download/parsing
Buffer management
Adaptation logic
DRM
Advertising
Skinning
Subtitles
Closed Captions
Timeshift & DVR
API & Events
Fallback solutions
Multi-Audio
Cast
Licensing
Metrics & Analytics
Thumbnail seeking/preview

14. How to make it “VR”?
Make use of HTML5/JS and WebGL.

19. Besides Rendering:
• Different views for different devices
• User interaction possibilities
• Mouse / Keyboard
• In-build sensors
• Head-tracking
• Auto rotation
• …

20. Use Cases
• Online video portals (Netflix & Co)
• Crime scene reconstructions
• Virtual workspaces
• Manufacturing and constructions
• Education
• Immersive festival experience

21. Immersive Coverage of Spatially
Outspread Live Events (ICoSOLE)
• Provide immersive experience for:
• Music festivals
• Sport events
icosole.eu

23. Problem Solved?
• What about…
… device inhomogeneity
… content protection - DRM
… bandwidth efficiency
… immersive Audio

24. Binaural Audio

25. Sound Field Recoding

26. Web Audio API
a W3C working draft

31. What we will do next…
• Reporting and analytics
• User interaction
• Highlighting POI
• DRM Integration
• Immersive audio
• Region based streaming

32. Web-based Adaptive VR and
360° Video Streaming
by Reinhard Grandl @r_grandl | Bitmovin