Drone Streaming with Wi-Fi Grid Aggregation for Virtual Tour

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel drone streaming system using Wi-Fi grid aggregation that enables high-quality, interactive virtual tours with user-controlled views and real-time streaming for immersive experiences.

Contribution

It introduces a new drone stereoscopic streaming paradigm with Wi-Fi grid infrastructure supporting high-bitrate broadcast and fast view adaptation for virtual tours.

Findings

Successful prototype implementation on Dji M100 and HTC Vive.

Supports high-bitrate streaming with multi-channel Wi-Fi grid.

Enables fast view and drone control for immersive virtual touring.

Abstract

To provide a live, active and high-quality virtual touring streaming experience, we propose an unmanned drone stereoscopic streaming paradigm using a control and streaming infrastructure of a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi grid. Our system allows users to actively control the streaming captured by a drone, receive and watch the streaming using a head mount display (HMD); a Wi-Fi grid is deployed across the remote scene with multi-channel support to enable high-bitrate stream- ing broadcast from the drones. The system adopt a joint view adaptation and drone control scheme to enable fast viewer movement including both head rotation and touring. We implement the prototype on Dji M100 quadcopter and HTC Vive in a demo scene.