You're facing technical hurdles in VR content delivery. How will you overcome unexpected delays?

I would like to complement the text with some additional considerations. Besides identifying technical issues, it's crucial to perform a workflow analysis to detect bottlenecks in the development process. Consider integrating real-time monitoring tools to predict and mitigate delays before they occur. Maintaining clear and constant communication between technical and management teams can expedite the identification and resolution of problems.

Providing resources for content creators to ensure efficient communication with technical teams and engineers is key, and it will save money and time.

To overcome unexpected delays in VR content delivery, I'll first conduct a thorough assessment to identify the root cause. By reallocating resources and adjusting timelines, I can prioritize critical tasks to maintain momentum. I'll also enhance communication with the team and stakeholders, providing regular updates to manage expectations. Implementing contingency plans, leveraging cloud-based solutions for faster deployment, and possibly outsourcing specific tasks to experts will help streamline the process. This proactive approach minimizes disruption and ensures timely delivery.

Latency is a major issue for applications involving real-time communication. It mostly arises due to a combination of issues in software and hardware. To pinpoint the issue, it's important to identify the component in the architecture responsible for causing the issue. For example, when I built a video streaming client for live streaming 360 videos to VR directly, there was a latency of ~200 ms approximately. It was due to issues with the video frames being chucked inappropriately into array buffers but it was an easy fix.

Expect delays. Always. Plan for them. Especially if you are developing the content yourself--give yourself at least two weeks between real-life user testing and your actual event.

Having a plan to optimize content for performance is critical for a successful VR project. Start with identifing what are the key content and performance needs for the user experience. Be mindful not to let scope creep add load to the project that does not deliver against that core need. Once the baseline experience is in, then you need to do a cost-benefit analysis on anything additional that includes assessing potential performance impacts. Lastly, plan time in your schedule for content optimization with each deliverable. As VR platforms and code bases evolve there will be a constant need for optimization and failing to include that time in your plan can completely derail a schedule.

Generative AI is very good at helping you streamline your code and it is a dedicated commenter, so that can assist your work flow.

From my experience, one cool trick for optimizing VR content is using dynamic content scaling. This means adjusting the complexity of your VR environment on the fly, based on the user's hardware and network. In my VR Submarine Engineering project, we hit a snag with complex models causing lag due to our detailed hydrodynamics physics system. To fix this, we broke down the submarines into smaller cubes and treated these as individual volumes. For example, we used an 8x8x8 grid to keep things accurate while cutting down on the computational load.

cuando defines lo que quieras crear en realidad virtual aumentada o mixta, debes definir primero: -será standalone o modo escritorio o web.... según la decisión que tomes deberás optimizar tu proyecto y recursos para ese hardware donde va correr, divide las tareas si estas programando solo deja una etapa para montar escenarios otra para cinemáticas y otra para la programación tómalo con calma, las obras mas brillantes y juegos AAA no demoraron 1 mes ni un a?os sino que se tomaron su tiempo para llegar a la perfección

con el tiempo, tanto visores como computadoras se quedan obsoletos, empresas como Meta, Pico, Lenovo, Apple van actualizando sus dispositivos por lo que siempre es recomendable leer informarse sobre el avance de estas tecnologías, si es necesario actualiza tu visor, si tu equipo demanda un proyecto muy costoso cuestiona si es necesario un nuevo computador o alojar tu aplicación con pixel streaming o similar en alguna maquina Virtual y conectarte remoto, para todas las áreas es distinto algunos solo basta con mejorar la optimización o simplemente moviendo el proyecto a la nueva versión, ten en cuenta que mientas mas nuevo el software mas tecnologías soporta(como luces dinámicas efectos especiales etc.) pero eso le suma rendimiento adicional

Content delivery requires a good backend architecture and a good network. So be sure to rely on trusted companies that can provide you networks with high bandwidth and high up time. At the same time, it is very important to optimize all the delivery pipeline, and for instance make intensive use of caching

Una tecnología MUY INTERESANTE para reducir la latencia al máximo en gafas de AR es mirar la tecnología de los drones FPV. Además, ahora que está tan “de moda” la IA, para evitar problemas de red, la mejor solución es ejecutar en local lo máximo posible (por ejemplo conectándose con el smartphone).

These prompts bring up great points for if you're building custom VR implementations. But the industry is maturing quickly and there's actually starting to be more enterprise ready pre-built applications for you to license as well. Sometimes you can proactively avoid these breakdowns by leveraging out of the box applications like Arthur for immersive meetings or tools like Talespin or Virti for immersive learning. There's some limitations where you'll need to optimize 3D files for example, however for most use cases these there's probably existing software that can get you 80%+ of the way there.

I would also add monitor the user experience. Users can often become nauseated when using HMDs. Apart from that, for any software, robust user testing is a must!