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Video conferences will continue dubai airshow 2011 to take place in three dimensions. In the project "Being There Center ETH Zurich research will be conducted along with an American and an Asian partner university for novel 3D systems.
The film "Star dubai airshow 2011 Wars" gave back in the 70s a taste of possible communication technologies of the 21st century. With "holocams" and "Holoprojectors" could bring their thousands of kilometers distant interlocutor in the form of three-dimensional, interactive holograms into his own spaceship, the heroes of the space saga. Similar hovering before the three initiators of the "Being There Center" project. The ETH Zurich together with the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the University of North Carolina dubai airshow 2011 at Chapel Hill have announced their cooperation in the framework of a new research center for "telepresence" and "tele-collaboration" on Wednesday at a press conference in Singapore. In an international research center, among other systems should dubai airshow 2011 be developed to enable video conferences with three-dimensional representation of thousands of kilometers away counterpart. Bring experience in 3D technologies with
The Institute of Visual Computing at ETH Zurich will focus with the participation of Professor Markus Gross, Professor Marc Pollefeys and Professor Olga Sorkine primarily on the development of a so-called roving displays. With this display, the illusion of a person present in the room to be produced on a semi-transparent screen. For this is taken at its real location on 3D cameras and built then the caller through three-dimensional video projector again. All this must be done in real time, so that the illusion of a joint meeting occurs in the same room. The "Telepresence Platform" should be mobile at the end that they may be used in different environments. At the same time a hard nut to crack is the user friendliness of the system: "One of the biggest challenges will be for us to seamlessly integrate the projection to be developed in an everyday environment," says Markus Gross, ETH-sided leads the project. Postdocs commute between Singapore and Zurich
The Institute for Visual Computing has many years of experience in the creation of 3D virtual worlds. So, for example, are experiences dubai airshow 2011 from the project "Blue C" incorporated into the development of "Telepresence Platform" with. "Our institute is a major driver of the international project," says Silke Konsorski, project coordinator of "Being There Center" at the ETH. "Our experience with algorithms for the computation of 3D animations as well as our know-how 3D display technologies will benefit the project sure about."
The goal of all three institutions is in the four-year term first prototypes of "telepresence" - to develop and "tele-collaboration" systems that are ready for market later. The intellectual property in the joint development of research outcomes is shared. A total of more than 30 researchers to contribute to the project "Being There Center ; it alone 25 doctoral students at NTU University in Singapore. The total estimated cost for the research project amounted to the equivalent of 17 million francs. The annual contribution dubai airshow 2011 of ETH in the form of research services and infrastructure is around 800,000 francs. The Institute for Visual Computing in addition to the existing scientists who work on the project, hire two postdocs, of which one each for half a year in Singapore at the Nanyang Technological University is researching.
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