Open-Sourcing VR2Gather: A Collaborative Social VR System for Adaptive Multi-Party Real Time Communication
Jack Jansen, Thomas Röggla, Silvia Rossi, Irene Viola, Pablo S. Cesar · 2024
Social Virtual Reality is envisioned to transform how individu- als communicate remotely, offering a sense of immersion and co- presence within a virtual space. Current platforms enabling remote social interactions rely on synthetic user representations. We ad- dress this limitation by enabling realistic human representation through volumetric content capture, encoding and transmission. Specifically, we present an extended version of VR2Gather, now a fully open source Unity package, available at https://github.com/ cwi-dis/VR2Gather-acmmm-oss. Our platform is a customisable system to transmit volumetric content in a multi-party real-time environment, easy to integrate into existing applications.