Apparatus and method for optimizing time/space warp for virtual reality using dynamic tiling and dirty tile marking

A method comprising:

• concurrently rendering multiple tiles of a first image frame on a host device, wherein tiles are categorized into core tiles and peripheral tiles of the first image frame;
• transmitting a first rendered core tile of the first image frame to a virtual reality apparatus before one or more remaining tiles of the first image frame have been rendered;
• continuing to transmit one or more subsequently rendered core tiles of the first image frame following the first core tile until all core tiles of the first image frame have been transmitted;
• identifying a subset of the peripheral tiles of the first image frame to be transmitted based on first coordinate offset data;
• and
• responsively transmitting the subset of the peripheral tiles of the first image frame.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having program code stored thereon which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform:

• concurrently rendering multiple tiles of a first image frame on a host device, wherein tiles are categorized into core tiles and peripheral tiles of the first image frame;
• transmitting a first rendered core tile of the first image frame to a virtual reality apparatus before one or more remaining tiles of the first image frame have been rendered;
• continuing to transmit one or more subsequently rendered core tiles of the first image frame following the first core tile until all core tiles of the first image frame have been transmitted;
• identifying a subset of the peripheral tiles of the first image frame to be transmitted based on first coordinate or offset data;
• and
• responsively transmitting the subset of the peripheral tiles of the first image frame.