| Improving, Expanding and Extending 3D Telepresence Abstract (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| For over a decade we have been pursuing a vision of threedimensional (3D) telepresence. Our primary driving problem is 3D medical consultation. Our basic goal is to enhance and expand medical diagnosis and treatment for lifecritical trauma scenarios by providing an advising health care provider and a distant medical advisee a “live ” highfidelity sense of 3D presence with each other. Here we provide some background on our current capabilities, and describe plans and some strategies to improve the 3D resolution and quality, to increase the working volume, and to extend the user paradigms for 3D telepresence. Keywords: Telepresence, tele-existence, Virtual Reality, medical consultation, computer vision, user interfaces. Figure 1: Conceptual sketches of some three-dimensional (3D) medical telepresence paradigms. Left: a portable multi-camera unit. Center: hospital-based 3D viewing. Right: mobile 3D viewing. (Sketches by Andrei State.) | |||||||||||||||
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