Project Number
- 325
Title
- TWISTER: A Media Booth
Description
- Immersive full-color auto-stereoscopic display for face-to-face telecommunication systems.
Contact
- Kenji Tanaka
Affiliation
- The University of Tokyo
Address
- Tachi Laboratory
- MEIP School of Engineering
- 7-3-1 Hongo
- Bunkyo-ku 113-8656 Japan
- MEIP School of Engineering
- tanaken@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "TWISTER (Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope) is an immersive full-color autostereoscopic display, designed for a face-to-face telecommunication system called "mutual telexistence," where people in distant locations can communicate as if they were in the same virtual three dimensional space."
- Standing in respective booths, live full-color panoramic and autostereoscopic images are displayed to the user while also capturing images of the user from every angle. "TWISTER has rotating display units surrounding the observer." Each display consists of two light-emitting diode (LED) arrays and a parallax barrier. Rotation of the display unit makes it a wide angle display in 360 degrees. Autostereopsis is achieved by the rotating parallax barrier with appropriate timing for the display LEDs (pairs of red, green, blue LEDs) without need for eyewear.
Sight
- LED-based rotating display units, parallax barrier
Sound
- two-way audio
Touch
- LED-based autosteroscopic display
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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