Surround-Screen Mobile Based Projection: Design and Implementation of Mobile Cave Virtual Reality

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) is the employment of computer devices to simulate real or imaginary environments. Conventional user interfaces stress the usage of screen displays to interact with the developed environment. The prospect of VR enables the user to be virtually inside the environment. Cave automatic virtual reality environment (CAVE) is one kind of room-shaped VR technology that displays the environment on its walls. We observe some common limitations in the existing CAVE technology, such as fixed space requirements, and the difficulty in moving it. In this paper, we present a novel mobile-CAVE system that uses light-weighted materials and portable powered devices. It solves the limitation of re-using the allocated space by packing it and the ability to move it easily. We have assessed our technology by performing usability analysis, power consumption, and mobility experimental study. The profound experiments demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed technology in comparison with the former CAVE system.

Keywords

• Virtual reality
• Cave automatic virtual reality environment (CAVE)
• sustainable development
• projection paradigms
• mobile technology