Summary

Recommendation ITU-T J.1631 describes functional requirements of the end-to-end (E2E) network platform to deliver 360°/Virtual Reality (VR) video services from the video cloud to terminal devices over integrated broadband cable networks. Cloud VR is a new cloud computing technology for VR services. With fast and stable transport networks, VR contents are stored and rendered in the cloud. Audiovisual contents are encoded, compressed and transmitted to user terminals. This Recommendation specifies the network requirements of Cloud VR services.

NOTE – Integrated broadband cable networks can be referred to as a cable network, e.g., coaxial cable, optical fibre, hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC), etc., that also has capability to provide broadband services integrated with television services over the same network.