TeleHuman: Cylindrical screen for 3D video conferences

The Human Media Lab at Queen's University of Ontario (Canada) has turned to Microsoft Kinect to develop a 3D video conferencing system, the TeleHuman, a cylindrical screen that presents a full 3D projection, to a point where you can walk around it.

Professor Roel Vertegaar and his team of researchers at the Human Media Lab from Queen's University of Ontario (Canada) they have created the TeleHuman, a device shaped like a cylindrical screen capable of reproducing three-dimensional projections of a “full-length” person. Said another way, if you walk around the TeleHuman, It will be as if that person were in front of you.

The design is based on a 3D projector, an acrylic tube almost two meters high, a convex mirror and a total of ten Microsoft Kinect devices (six located at the top in the tube) to function. Projection does not accommodate multiple people in the same room, but everyone present sees the same representation. Researchers have used TeleHuman to develop an app called BodiPod, which offers a completely interactive three-dimensional reproduction of the human body.

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