Towards an Edge Cloud Based Coordination Platform for Multi-User AR Applications Built on Open-Source SLAMs

Multi-user and collaborative AR applications pose several chal-lenges. The expected user experience requires accurate pose infor-mation for each device and precise synchronization of the respective coordinate systems in real-time. Unlike mobile phones or AR glasses running on battery with constrained resource capacity, cloud and edge platforms can provide the computing power for the core functions under the hood. In this paper, we propose a novel edge cloud based platform for multi-user AR applications realizing an essential coordination service among the users. The latency criti-cal, computation intensive Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) function is offloaded from the device to the edge cloud infrastructure.