Real time distributed content rendering technique based on agent-mediator communication framework for multi-display systems

Abstract

Mixed reality (MR) systems provide an immersive virtual environment where the gap between real and virtual world is minimal. Current MR applications use fixed display to create this environment. However, the environment is never fixed in real world and it is difficult to achieve this non-static environment using traditional MR frameworks. Therefore, in this paper, an efficient multi-display MR system is proposed. The proposed system uses moveable displays to create dynamically changing immersive virtual environment. An agent-mediator based framework is used for communication in which a mediator is connected to several agents. Mediator administers the position of display and synchronizes the view across all agents. Agents gather interaction data from user which is passed to mediator. Moreover, distributed graphic contents rendering technique is used to efficiently render complex graphical contents. In this technique, mediator divides the contents and transmits these to each agent. This division of contents optimises the rendering process on agents, thus increasing the efficiency of the MR system.