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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Lund, SE;
Robert M. Toth, Lund, SE;
Ingo Wald, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Aditya S. Yanamandra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brent E. Insko, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Apodaca, Folsom, CA (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual reality apparatus and method are described. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a compute cluster comprising global illumination circuitry and/or logic to perform global illumination operations on graphics data in response to execution of a virtual reality application and to responsively generate a stream of samples; a filtering/compression module to perform filtering and/or compression operations on the stream of samples to generate filtered/compressed samples; a network interface to communicatively couple the compute cluster to a network, the filtered/compressed samples to be streamed over the network; a render node to receive the filtered/compressed samples streamed over the network, the render node comprising: decompression circuitry/logic to decompress the filtered/compressed samples to generate decompressed samples; a sample buffer to store the decompressed samples; and sample insertion circuitry/logic to asynchronously insert samples into a light field rendered by a light field rendering circuit/logic.