Real-Time Terascale Implementation of Tele-immersion

Tele-immersion is a new medium that enables a user to share a virtual space with remote participants, by creating the illusion that users at geographically dispersed locations reside at the same physical space. A person is immersed in a remote world, whose 3D representation is acquired remotely, then transmitted and displayed in the viewer’s environment. Tele-immersion is effective only when the three components, computation, transmission, and rendering - all operate in real time . In this paper, we describe the real-time implementation of scene reconstruction on the Terascale Computing System at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICCS
• Authors: Nikhil Kelshikar, Xenophon Zabulis, Jane Mulligan, Kostas Daniilidis, Vivek Sawant, Sudipta N. Sinha, Travis Sparks, Scott Larsen, Herman Towles, Ketan Mayer-Patel, Henry Fuchs, John Urbanic, Kathy Benninger, Raghurama Reddy, Gwendolyn Huntoon
• Keywords: ICCS 2003, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Remote Participants, Terascale Computing System