Technical information about the TeleImmersion Project
Our tele-immersion system has 360 degree stereo capturing capability which allows full-body 3D reconstruction of people and objects. The data is captured in real time and projected into a virtual environment as a point cloud which can be combined with virtual objects and scenes.
The current apparatus includes 48 cameras arranged in 12 stereo clusters. The images from each cluster are processed by a stereo reconstruction program running in parallel on 12 computers. The acquired data can be sent via Gigabit Internet II connection to another computer to be rendered into a 3-dimensional scene. The data can be displayed using passive stereo projection to increase the perception of depth. We also have hardware capable of capturing and playing sound from 4 microphones and 4 speakers, and 8 infrared lights that project patterns that facilitate depth detection.
Resources
Also available by request are the following, downloadable, presentations: