• Ranjit Reddy Bayyapu
• Dr. P. Ramana Reddy

Virtual reality (VR) is one of the evolving technologies which is trying to redefine the user experience in entertainment and gaming industries. VR creates a real world for a user to experience and gives the feel of existence, virtually. Many multimedia applications like watching sports, entertainment events and games apart from few interactive applications are considering VR for rendering their content. The videos for the sake of VR content are captured using multiple cameras places at many places in a spherical manner. The 360ͦ scene capture from multiple different directions alone lets the user to experience the scene in all directions horizontally, vertically with top and bottom views. The challenge of coding these multiple views from multiple cameras is being addressed in standards like ITU-T's H.264 extension for Multiview Video Coding (MVC). Though MVC speaks more about the linear arrangement of cameras in a multiview capture of a scene, for VR we can extend the same linear plane of camera placements and subject to the same standard for coding. The MVC standard is expected to evolve for VR kind of applications where cameras also capture the scene with a fisheye lens and not a frame of a video clip. Fisheye lenses gives a wider field-of-view which can be placed across the curve of a sphere. In this paper, the various arrangements of cameras possible on a sphere to capture the scene suitable for making a VR content is explained with possible coding methods where the dependency can be among the closest of the cameras in the same plane of existence

virtual reality, multiview, camera planes

"Multiple Camera placement and inter-view prediction in MVC for Virtual Realilty Application ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.695-698, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812696.pdf

"Multiple Camera placement and inter-view prediction in MVC for Virtual Realilty Application ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp695-698, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812696.pdf