The Coliseum Immersive Teleconferencing System
H. Harlyn Baker, Donald Tanguay, Irwin E. Sobel, Dan Gelb, Michael E. Goss, W. Bruce Culbertson, Thomas Malzbender · 2002
We describe Coliseum, a desktop system for immersive teleconferencing. Five cameras attached to a desktop LCD monitor are directed at a participant. View synthesis methods produce arbitrary-perspective renderings of the participant from these video streams, and transmit them to other participants. Combining these renderings in a shared synthetic environment gives the illusion of having remote participants interacting in a common space.