Telepresence robots are becoming popular in social interactions involving health care,
elderly assistance, guidance, or office meetings. There are two types of human …

Experience Project Starline, the first photorealistic telepresence system that demonstrably
outperforms 2D videoconferencing systems, as measured by participant ratings, meeting …

Real-time three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of real-world environments has many
significant applications in various fields, including telepresence technology. When depth …

Applications like disaster management and industrial inspection often require experts to
enter contaminated places. To circumvent the need for physical presence, it is desirable to …

Real-time 3D scene reconstruction from RGB-D sensor data, as well as the exploration of
such data in VR/AR settings, has seen tremendous progress in recent years. The …

Mixed-reality telepresence allows local and remote users feel as if they are present together
in the same space. In this paper we report on a mixed-reality volumetric telepresence system …

Disclosed are systems and methods for augmented reality multi-view telepresence. An
exemplary embodiment is pro vided for a first-location participant and a second-location …

The latest developments in 3D capturing, processing, and rendering provide means to
unlock novel 3D application pathways. The main elements of an integrated platform, which …

Stereoscopic video conferencing is still challenging due to the need to compress stereo
RGB-D video in real-time. Though hardware implementations of standard video codecs such …

In his 1999 article that reviewed the state of virtual reality (VR) Prof. Fred Brooks Jr. noted
that at that time the field had made great technical advances over the previous 5 years …