Policies and architecture to dynamically offload VR processing to HMD based on external cues

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a wearable graphics processing apparatus, frame data of a virtual reality scene from an external graphics processing apparatus;
• processing, by at least one processor of the wearable graphics processing apparatus, the frame data to generate visual images on one or more displays of the wearable graphics processing apparatus;
• monitoring, by a performance monitor, performance of at least one component of the wearable graphics processing apparatus;
• generating, by the performance monitor, an alert based on the performance of the at least one component;
• and
• transmitting the alert over a communications interface to the external graphics processing apparatus to offload additional processing of at least some of the frame data to the external graphics processing apparatus.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• receive, by a wearable graphics processing apparatus, frame data of a virtual reality scene from an external graphics processing apparatus;
• process, by at least one processor of the wearable graphics processing apparatus, the frame data to generate visual images on one or more displays of the wearable graphics processing apparatus;
• monitor, by a performance monitor, performance of at least one component of the wearable graphics processing apparatus;
• generate, by the performance monitor, an alert based on the performance of the at least one component;
• and
• transmit the alert over a communications interface to the external graphics processing apparatus to offload additional processing of at least some of the frame data to the external graphics processing apparatus.