Measuring quality-of-experience (QoE) for virtual reality (VR) streaming content

A computing system, comprising:

• a network computing device comprising:
• a first memory;
• and
• a first processor device coupled to the first memory and configured to:
• stream, via a network connection to a client computing device, virtual reality (VR) content from a VR server of a network computing device to a VR head-mounted display device (HMDD) communicatively coupled to the client computing device;
• inject one or more induced network impairments into the network connection while streaming the VR content;
• receive, from the client computing device, a client-side VR stream capture and a client pose data set generated based on the VR content and the one or more induced network impairments;
• generate a source VR stream capture based on the VR content and the client pose data set without the one or more induced network impairments;
• perform a frame-by-frame comparison of the client-side VR stream capture and the source VR stream capture;
• and
• generate a quality-of-experience (QoE) metric indicating a degree of degradation of the client-side VR stream capture relative to the source VR stream capture, based on the frame-by-frame comparison.

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and including computer-executable instructions configured to cause a processor device to:

• stream, via a network connection, virtual reality (VR) content from a VR server to a VR head-mounted display device (HMDD);
• inject one or more induced network impairments into the network connection while streaming the VR content;
• receive a client-side VR stream capture and a client pose data set generated based on the VR content and the one or more induced network impairments;
• generate a source VR stream capture based on the VR content and the client pose data set without the one or more induced network impairments;
• perform a frame-by-frame comparison of the client-side VR stream capture and the source VR stream capture;
• and
• generate a QoE metric indicating a degree of degradation of the client-side VR stream capture relative to the source VR stream capture, based on the frame-by-frame comparison.