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Pub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34550-0_9
William Kwabla, Furkan Dinc, Khalil Oumimoun, Sinan Kockara, Tansel Halic, Doga Demirel, Sreekanth Arikatla, Shahryar Ahmadi
Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is an open-source technology which enables remote peer-to-peer video and audio connection. It has quickly become the new standard for real-time communications over the web and is commonly used as a video conferencing platform. In this study, we present a different application domain which may greatly benefit from WebRTC technology, that is virtual reality (VR) based surgical simulations. Virtual Rotator Cuff Arthroscopic Skill Trainer (ViRCAST) is our testing platform that we completed preliminary feasibility studies for WebRTC. Since the elasticity of cloud computing provides the ability to meet possible future hardware/software requirements and demand growth, ViRCAST is deployed in a cloud environment. Additionally, in order to have plausible simulations and interactions, any VR-based surgery simulator must have haptic feedback. Therefore, we implemented an interface to WebRTC for integrating haptic devices. We tested ViRCAST on Google cloud through haptic-integrated WebRTC at various client configurations. Our experiments showed that WebRTC with cloud and haptic integrations is a feasible solution for VR-based surgery simulators. From our experiments, the WebRTC integrated simulation produced an average frame rate of 33 fps, and the hardware integration produced an average lag of 0.7 milliseconds in real-time.
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Learning and collaboration technologies : 10th International Conference, LCT 2023, held as part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23-28, 2023, proceedings. Part II. LCT (Conference) (10th : 2...