Tele-immersion technology

Tele-immersion technology

 Tele-immersion is designed and developed to allow  users in geographically distributed sites to collaborate in real-time in a shared simulated environment. This enterprise has engaged the skills of researchers in a variety of disciplines, including computer vision, graphics and network communications.

Tele-Immersion (TI) is defined as the integration of audio and video conferencing, via image-based modeling, with collaborative virtual reality (CVR) in the context of data-mining & significant computation.  Tele-Immersion is a new medium that enables a user to share a virtual space with remote participants. The user is immersed in a 3D world that is transmitted from a remote site. This medium for human interaction, enabled by digital technology approximates the illusion that a person is in the same physical space as others, even though they may be thousands of miles distant. It combines the display and interaction techniques of virtual reality with new computer-vision technologies. Thus with the aid of this new technology, users at geographically distributed sites can collaborate in real-time in a shared, simulated, hybrid environment submerging in one another presence and feel as if they are sharing the same physical space.

Tele-immersion technology

Tele-immersion technology utilizes arrays of cameras and microphones to capture 3D scenes in real time. By having this setup at multiple remote sites and streaming the 3D data between the various locations one can provide users with a level of interaction currently not attainable by conventional 2D systems. In a tele-immersive system users, represented as 3D data, are merged into a common virtual environment where they can interact with other remote users and/or interact with shared non-existent virtual objects placed in the environment with them. The main goal of our work is to design and build a portable, reconfigurable and inexpensive tele-immersive system from commercial off-the-shelf components.