TEEVE-Remote: A Novel User-Interaction Solution for 3D Tele-immersive System

3D Tele-immersion (3DTI) system enables geographically distributed users to interact with each other in the virtual 3D space. Many 3DTI applications require users to have frequent physical movement in the application (e.g, 3D interactive exergaming, remote therapy). However, traditional user interaction (UI) solution (which includes large display, mouse/keyboard) for 3DTI system does not give users much freedom to move during the interaction and thus has difficulties to meet this requirement. In this work, we design and implement a novel UI solution TEEVE-Remote which utilizes state-of-the-art camera, mobile phone and display technologies to overcome the difficulties and therefore significantly improve the user experience of 3DTI system.