erasmus – QoE4VR: Quality of experience for virtual reality applications

During the period from 15^th of March 2019 to 15^th of June 2019 a PhD student from the University of West Bohemia, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Pilsen, Czech Republic, came to us on ERASMUS+ Student Mobility for Traineeships programme. His name is Sergo Martirosov and he specializes in developing VR environments, namely for educational and training purposes. Continue reading “Sergo Martirosov from University of West Bohemia joined the team”

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Experimenting with omnidirectional videos

See how we started experimenting with omnidirectional videos; investigating the impacts of frame rate, bit rate and resolution changes on user QoE.

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First results

Click Read more button and we will take you to our first post of the results page. We are happy to share with you our first initial findings of the QoE4VR project.

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What is Quality of Experience (QoE)?

Network operators and service providers from the very advent of telecommunications...

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Virtual Reality 101

The most straightforward definition of Virtual Reality (VR) would be that it is...

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Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality

Apart from VR, it is useful to briefly discuss the concept of Augmented Reality (AR).

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New paper published

We have published a paper titled Subjective Evaluation of User Quality of Experience for Omnidirectional Video Streaming in the Promet Traffic&Transportation journal. ...

Experimenting with omnidirectional videos

Perhaps you already read the post about our newly added associate Sergo Martirosov; together we were experimenting with omnidirectional, i.e. 360° video and how different bit rate, frame rate and reso...

Conference paper published presenting the initial results

The project team participated in the 6th RCITD International Virtual Research Conference In Technical Disciplines from November 5-11, 2018. We published a paper entitled “Fear, Discomfort, and Percept...

Sergo Martirosov from University of West Bohemia joined the team

During the period from 15th of March 2019 to 15th of June 2019 a PhD student from the University of West Bohemia, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Pilsen, Czech Republic, came to u...

Students came in to try VR gaming experience

During the winter semester, here at the Faculty, our students tried out VR gaming. They had a choice of several types of games, namely, the first-person shooter (FPS), table tennis or puzzle solving. ...

Initial results started to come in

In the last two weeks or so we were conducting a small-scale test of user QoE while playing the popular Project Cars racing game in VR. For now, we have downloaded free-to-play version of the game fro...

Tidying up the QoE4VR HQ

The equipment that we need for the implementation of the QoE4VR project is now with us for a couple of days. We can report that we are working very hard on playing the games, using VR applications and...

The equipment is here

If you looked at our Work Plan you could see that the first few stages of the QoE4VR project include acquiring the necessary equipment for establishing the test environment. Apart from resting and acc...

Web page launched

Since you are already here it is obviously not a big news to you, but still… the web page of the QoE4VR projects is now launched. Hope you will like the design that is based on the popular WordP...