Title :
Blending real with virtual in 3DLife
Author :
Apostolakis, Konstantinos C. ; Alexiadis, Dimitrios S. ; Daras, Petros ; Monaghan, David ; O´Connor, Noel E. ; Prestele, B. ; Eisert, Peter ; Richard, Guilhem ; Zhang, Qi ; Izquierdo, Ebroul ; Moussa, M.B. ; Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. Inst., Centre for Res. & Technol. - Hellask, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
Part of 3DLife´s major goal to bring the 3D media Internet to life, concerns the development and wide-spread distribution of online tele-immersive (TI) virtual environments. As the techniques powering challenging tasks for user reconstruction and activity tracking within a virtual environment are maturing, along with consumer-grade availability of specialized hardware, this paper focuses on the simple practices used to make real-time tele-immersion within a networked virtual world a reality.
Keywords :
Internet; image reconstruction; virtual reality; 3D media Internet; 3DLife; activity tracking; networked virtual world; online tele-immersive virtual environments; user reconstruction; Avatars; Cameras; Joints; Real-time systems; Three-dimensional displays; Virtual environments;
Conference_Titel :
Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2013 14th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Paris
DOI :
10.1109/WIAMIS.2013.6616123
