JackIn SpaceSecond of two posts covering the fascinating work of Rekimoto Lab
in the field of telepresence.
This project lets users alter perspective from first to third person in an environment made up of various depth cameras and fitted HMDs:
Traditional telepresence systems only supported first person’s view and users had difficulty in recognizing the surrounding situation of the remote workspace. The JackIn Space concept addresses this problem by seamlessly integrating the first person’s view with the third person’s view. With a head-mounted first person camera and multiple depth sensors installed in the environment,the surrogate user’s first person’s view smoothly changes to the out-of-body third person’s view, and the user who connects to the surrogate user can virtually glimpse around the environment. The user can also dive into the other remote user’s first person’s view to glimpse at the environment from the different perspective. More Here
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