Delivering High Quality Mobile VR

Brad Grantham & Neal Robinson

High quality mobile VR is demanding not only on GPUs but across the system. It requires close cooperation of many components, notably low-latency, zero-copy paths between video, GPU and display, as well as careful power management to ensure predictable timing within thermal limits, which is especially important with mobile VR.

Native GPU Hardware Acceleration for Mobile VR

Nigel Williams

The recent advent of untethered mobile virtual reality devices requires a drastic reduction in the utilization of bus bandwidth as well as minimizing render time through optimized shader computation. The extremely low latency requirements to reduce motion to photon delays is putting added pressure on the GPU to be highly performant. Learn to better understand your underlying hardware to exploit the features in the core graphics APIs and their extensions for OpenGL ES.

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Neal Robinson
Neal Robinson

Neil has over twenty years of experience in software engineering and game development expertise to ARM. He oversees the technical, business and marketing relationships between ARM and mobile software developers.

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Brad Grantham
Brad Grantham

Brad Grantham has been an OpenGL developer since 1997 and has presented at SIGGRAPH and ARM TechCon.  He currently specializes in mobile graphics application support on ARM Mali GPUs for ARM’s Business Line Group

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Nigel Williams
Nigel Williams

Nigel Williams was previously a graphics driver software engineer for the Adreno GPU, in the Snapdragon SoC, at Qualcomm. He worked on both the OpenGL ES and Vulkan APIs with a focus on the GearVR and Daydream mobile VR platforms. Currently, he has relocated to London, UK, where he is about to begin a new chapter in his career.