Project Number
- 228
Title
- Virtual Head
Description
- Prototype physical avatar interface for video conferencing.
Contact
- Thom Brenner
Affiliation
- Echtzeit GmbH
Address
- Kantstrasse 165
- 10623 Berlin, Germany
- tbrenner@echtzeit.de
WWW
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Virtual Head is a new approach that enhances communications in virtual environments and telepresence."
- "The Virtual Head conferencing prototype renders three-dimensional images of every communication partner in real-time. It establishes eye-to-eye contact among communication partners by projecting live-video textures onto 3D geometry of a head. Compressed video and audio information is exchanged via a high-bandwidth network to establish a remote conferencing scenario."
- "This approach uses original face images with all their facial expressions and tries to transport the main factors of human communication such as line of gaze, which indicates attention and significantly drives a conversation."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projected video
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 311 - communication
Secondary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Remarks
- See also "Talking Head", SIGGRAPH 97.
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