Title :
Telepresence: Virtual Reality in the Real World [Special Reports]
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Imagine a teleconferencing system that´s so realistic, so natural, that you feel you could reach out and shake a participant´s hand, even though the individual may be sitting in a room hundreds or even thousands of miles away. That´s the idea behind telepresence, an emerging teleconferencing technology that´s designed to not only connect people together but to make them feel like they´re all collaborating together inside the same room.
Keywords :
teleconferencing; virtual reality; teleconferencing system; telepresence; virtual reality; Avatars; Cameras; Collaboration; Marketing and sales; Mobile communication; Teleconferencing; Virtual reality;
Journal_Title :
Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2011.941853