Collaborative Visualization of Microbialites
Graphics researcher Oliver Kraylos reshared this three year old video which demonstrates 3D teleconferencing using Kinects and pre-Oculus Rift headsets. Whilst the video shows an outsider-looking-in viewpoint, the participants will see a 3D repesentation of each others perspective. Both of the people in the video are in different buildings:
Demonstration of the KeckCAVES Remote Collaboration approach and early implementation. Oliver is in the UC Davis VR lab in front of a 3D TV with an optical tracking system. Dawn is in the fully immersive KeckCAVES in a different building. Burak is in the VR lab using a desktop computer and a mouse. Two Kinects are capturing Oliver’s image, and two are capturing Dawn’s image. Burak’s image is not being captured. Sound is shared among all three participants, although Burak doesn’t say anything.
All viewers see the same data. Both Oliver’s and Dawn’s images are rendered in Burak’s view. Only Oliver’s image is rendered in Dawn’s view, so she can see him and how he is moving, plus her own physical body. Only Dawn’s image is rendered for Oliver. Burak’s view is represented by a spherical avatar with orientation ornaments, and his mouse is represented by a cone. Oliver and Dawn have similar avatars that are sometimes visible in addition to their images.
This is still futuristic compared to the current commercial direction VR is going, and this video is three years old!
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