Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology of great societal potential. Some of its most exciting and promising use cases include remote scene content and untethered lifelike navigation. This article first highlights the relevance of such future societal applications and the challenges ahead toward enabling them. It then provides a broad and contextual high-level perspective of several emerging technologies and unconventional techniques and argues that only by their synergistic integration can the fundamental performance bottlenecks of hyperintensive computation, ultrahigh data rate, and ultralow latency be overcome to enable untethered and lifelike VR-based remote scene immersion. A novel future system concept is introduced that embodies this holistic integration, unified with a rigorous analysis, to capture the fundamental synergies and interplay among communications, computation, and scalable signal representation that arises in this context, and advance its performance. Several representative results highlighting these tradeoffs and the benefits of the envisioned system are presented at the end.

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实现虚拟人类隐形传态的下一代社会虚拟现实应用：一种新颖的未来系统概念和计算-通信-信号表示权衡


虚拟现实（VR）是一项具有巨大社会潜力的新兴技术。它的一些最令人兴奋和最有前途的用例包括远程场景内容和不受限制的逼真导航。本文首先强调了此类未来社会应用的相关性以及实现它们所面临的挑战。然后，它提供了几种新兴技术和非常规技术的广泛和上下文的高层次视角，并认为只有通过它们的协同集成，才能克服超密集计算、超高数据速率和超低延迟的基本性能瓶颈，从而实现不受束缚和逼真的 VR基于远程场景的沉浸。引入了一种新颖的未来系统概念，体现了这种整体集成，与严格的分析相结合，以捕获在此背景下出现的通信、计算和可扩展信号表示之间的基本协同作用和相互作用，并提高其性能。最后提出了一些代表性的结果，强调了这些权衡和设想系统的好处。