VR@Home: A Personal VR Studio Platform

Recently, people emerge as a contents provider with increasing usage of Internet in our daily life. People produces large portion of multimedia contents served on the Web. With this trend the personal broadcasting is being focused as a new application area of the Internet services. In this paper, we proposed VR@Home, a personal VR studio platform for personal broadcasting at home. VR@Home platform creates 3D scene by merging the real world contents and the virtual contents. 2.5D background and 3D objects generated from images of a real scene provide more immersion to users. The real-time soft shadows created by the estimated light sources keep the consistency between the real world and the virtual world. Through the personal virtual studio platform, a user can make his/her own contents and distribute or share them with the others on the Internet. Our platform is applicable to education in remote site, entertainment, and internet TV applications.