The National Tele-immersion Initiative
Presentation to US Army, The Pentagon
First Year Slide Set...
What is Virtual Reality?
What is Tele-immersion
Vital Applications
Behold the Telecubicle
Connecting Telecubicles
Transcending “Avatars”
Working with Virtual Objects
Selected reports on 1st year Progress
Environment scanning/resynthesis is working!
Three views of the same data:
More than one camera will be needed; this camera cluster has been developed
A mockup of imperceptible markers to be projected in a Telecubicle as seen by two different cameras (in Fred Brook’s kitchen!)
Raw data as reconstructed from the markers
We already know how to make this type of data look good in non-real time.
The rough data points are reconciled into a more accurate representation of reality.
Here is the end result.
SOFT will:
Second year slide set:
Overview of previous year
Research achievement overview: more modular (better!) than expected
Timeline
PPT Slide
Overhead view of Armonk, UPenn, and UNC
Progress on Physical Implementation of the Tele-immersion Medium
Virtual “High Five” Milestone
Since that time…
A Concept Drawing of a corner Telecubicle
Current Telecubicle Prototype
The prototype telecubicle with multiple projectors- images are blended so that there are no seams
Point of View test with camera cluster
Eye contact test
Current PC Cluster for Telecubicle
“Office Now”: Prototype of Display configuration for Tele-immersion
Dr. Gary Bishop’s Office Now
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy’s Office Now
New Mini-Camera Cluster
ISL at UPenn
Magical SOFT...
°wÍcal SOFT...
The big picture of the overall architecture...
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