Telepresent

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Professur Systeme der Virtuellen Realität demonstriert einzigartiges 3D-Telepräsenzsystem

The aim of our experiment is to determine if eye-gaze can be estimated from a virtuality human: to within the accuracies that underpin social interaction; and reliably across gaze poses and camera arrangements likely in every day settings. The scene ...

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Mind Control of Lego NXT Telepresence Robot (by Mark Bruce)

Wild Skies - Presentation and Live Gameplay at USC (by Project Holodeck)

Panelists: Prof. Henry Fuchs, Prof. Bernd Fröhlich, Prof. Ilona Heldal, Dr. William Steptoe.

Jaron Lanier

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The project has a number of realistic visions for how telepresence might be used, and they have a great deal of expertise on display technologies, incuding multiuser autostereo displays (3D displays without needing glasses).

The paper is part of the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2013).

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The project also includes a number of body ownership studies, on the basis that if we can create ownership of our avatars we might be able to increase a sense of presence and comfort.

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The project emphasizes the concept of a "visitor" beaming into another location, where they may be represented by an avatar or a robot.

Beaming introduction (by beamingavatar)

3DLife are working towards building a competence centre called "Excellence in Media Computing & Communication" or EMC2.

Their telepresence research covers everything from using the Kinect to drive your avatar, capture and transmission of a 3D mesh, and autonomous characters.