Immersive telepresence system using high-resolution omnidirectional movies and a locomotion interface
Sei Ikeda, Tomokazu Sato, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004
Technology that enables users to experience a remote site virtually is called telepresence. A telepresence system using real environment images is expected to be used in the field of entertainment, medicine, education and so on. This paper describes a novel telepresence system which enables users to walk through a photorealistic virtualized environment by actual walking. To realize such a system, a wide-angle high-resolution movie is projected on an immersive multi-screen display to present users the virtualized environments and a treadmill is controlled according to detected user's locomotion. In this study, we use an omnidirectional multi-camera system to acquire images real outdoor scene. The proposed system provides users with rich sense of walking in a remote site.