3D Telepresence for off-line surgical training and on-line remote consultation
Graham Frederick Welch, Ruigang Yang, Bruce A. Cairns, Herman E. Towles, Andrei State, Adrian Ilie, Sascha Becker, Daniel Russo, Jesse Funaro, Diane H. Sonnenwald, Ketan D. Mayer-Patel, B. Danette Allen, Hua Shu Yang, Eugene B. Freid, Andries van Dam, Henry Fuchs · Borås Academic Digital Archive (University of Borås) · 2004
We present an overview of multi-year efforts aimed at developing technology to support natural telepresence over time for off-line surgical training, and over space for on-line or “live ” remote consultation. Our goal is to capture and display high-fidelity, 3D graphical reconstructions of the actual time-varying events, allowing observers to change their (stereo) viewpoints naturally, by walking around, leaning forward/backward, rotating their head, etc. We describe the processes we use in our early prototypes, and present some experimental results.