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2004
Conference Paper
Titel
Immersive meeting point: An approach towards immersive media portals
Abstract
Natural and realistic video communication and collaboration across long distances is an essential, requirement in the context of globalization. Against this background this paper presents a next generation system - the immersive meeting point - which bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology available from research laboratories and advanced prototype systems beeing close th the market. The aim is to provide immversive tele-presence and natural representation of all participants in a shared virtual meeting space to enhance quality of humancentred communication. This system is based on the principle of a sharedvirtual table environment, which guarantees correct eye contact and gesture reproduction. The current system design and details of the algorithms als well as the software concept are resented.