Webized 3D content streaming system for autostereoscopic 3D displays

Abstract

Various types of video content using 360° panoramic and virtual reality video have become widespread. However, wearing eyewear as well as a head-mounted display is still a burden of experiencing in 3D content. Glasses-free (i.e. autostereoscopic)super multi-view (SMV) 3D displays provide more comfortable 3D experience but have limited types of content. To provide enriched SMV content, we propose a webizing method for SMV 3D streaming content with time synchronization. The proposed method provides SMV 3D streaming content that contains real world objects, 3D models, and HTML DOM elements through HTML documents. The method defines custom CSS extensions for transition and animation effects of the SMV 3D streaming content. We present an example of SMV 3D streaming content using a prototype implementation on the web to verify the usefulness of our approach.