Envisioning the Next Decade of XR Systems Research
This breakout formulates a research agenda outlining the main challenges to be resolved and opportunities to be exploited in enabling the next generation XR infrastructure – a generation of new immersive systems that provide a more comfortable, mobile, trustworthy, and collaborative experiences for users, while meeting usability requirements on such quantities as form factor, battery longevity, and viewing fidelity, to name a few, all easily customizable to a wide range of potential use-cases and a spectrum of individual differences. We contend that transformative advances in XR can only come from tight coordination of multiple research threads, such as the development of new system technologies that significantly reduce power, the exploitation of new networking solutions that mask latency, the development of appropriate content representation learning and generative AI algorithms that offer the illusion of interactive presence, and a deep understanding of physical, perceptual, cognitive, and psychological factors that influence the mapping of such technological enablers to perceived quality of human experience. Testbeds, datasets, benchmarks, and human subject experiments are needed to enable informed measurements of progress. Open sources communities must be incentivized and enabled with requisite tools to sustain innovations in the field.
The breakout discusses today’s accomplishments and gaps. Its outcome is a set of actionable steps needed to create the optimal socio-technical ecosystem for accelerating solution development to the next generation XR challenge.