Distributed Virtual Meeting Room

Distributed Virtual Meeting Room

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networked virtual reality, distibuted 3D graphics, remote interaction and collaboration, collaborative virtual environments

In the future, people may choose to meet in virtual meeting rooms using three dimensional rendering and systems developed by AMI to augment the verbal and non-verbal communications. Imagine, for example, that people wanted to meet in a "neutral" space, or that they did not wish to disclose information about their current surroundings. In the Distributed Virtual Meeting Room, all participants can benefit from verbal and non-verbal communications; there can be pro-active and reactive meeting support based on real time processing of the media streams, detecting events and activities. Virtual reality will permit higher and more comprehensive levels of visualization than is presently possible using current commercial technologies.

Nijholt Anton, Prof dr. ir. (UTWENTE) , research leader
Pečiva Jan, Ing., Ph.D. (UPGM FIT VUT) , team leader
Zwiers Job (UTWENTE) , team leader