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LiveSphere: Sharing the Surrounding Visual Environment for Immersive Experience in Remote Collaboration

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Shohei Nagai,

Shunichi Kasahara,

Jun RekimotoAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 113 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680549

Published: 15 January 2015 Publication History

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Sharing an immersive experience enhances situational awareness, enabling effective collaboration between persons in different places. The development of a head-worn camera enables us to capture the first-person view and share it as the personal experience. However, the limited viewing angle of such cameras prevents a remote viewer from obtaining a complete surrounding situation. In this paper, we propose a system called LiveSphere, which presents the entire surrounding visual environment using a head-worn system with multiple cameras. The image-stabilizing algorithm compensates image motion caused by the wearer's head movement. This enables the remote viewer to look around the environment independently from the wearer's head direction. We developed a prototype to examine how sharing the surrounding visual environment improves collaboration between persons in different places.

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

January 2015

766 pages

ISBN:9781450333054

DOI:10.1145/2677199

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Bill Verplank
Stanford University, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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RMIT, Australia

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