Project Number
- 282
Title
- X'tal Head: Face-to-Face Communications by Robot
Description
- Projection-based augmented reality system with telecommunication applications.
Contact
- Masahiko Inami
Affiliation
- The University of Tokyo
Address
- Tachilab, MEIP
- 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
- Tokyo 113-8656 Japan
- 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
- media3@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "X'tal Vision (Crystal Vision) is a projection-based augmented reality system composed of a projector with a small iris and a retroreflective screen."
- "[The system] allows users to observe stereoscopic images with almost correct occlusion relationships between the virtual and the real environment. The small iris mounted on the projector has an extensive depth of field, which enables the free arrangement and free shape of the screen."
- Demonstrated also at SIGGRAPH 98 and 99, the technology has been extended to telecommunication - X'tal Head allows users to observe a stereoscopic head image of a remote person. "A head-tracked camera with a constant-orientation link captures the head image, and the system display a novel, realistic 'talking head.'"
Sight
- graphics workstation, X'tal Vision display
Sound
- amplified audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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