  Good user experience with interactive cloud-based multimedia applications,
such as cloud gaming and cloud-based VR, requires low end-to-end latency and
large amounts of downstream network bandwidth at the same time. In this paper,
we present a foveated video streaming system for cloud gaming. The system
adapts video stream quality by adjusting the encoding parameters on the fly to
match the player's gaze position. We conduct measurements with a prototype that
we developed for a cloud gaming system in conjunction with eye tracker
hardware. Evaluation results suggest that such foveated streaming can reduce
bandwidth requirements by even more than 50% depending on parametrization of
the foveated video coding and that it is feasible from the latency perspective.

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