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Tele-immersive Environment for Everybody (TEEVE)

Our projects connected sites at the NCSA, Computer Science Department (CS) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California at Berkeley as illustrated below:

Collaboration between people in a shared virtual environment

Sketch of a collaboration between people in a shared virtual environment.

The dancers meet in the tele-immersive environment where the 3D representation of their motion is captured in real time, streamed and rendered in a shared virtual space. The process does not require the dancers to wear any special device allowing continuous creative impulses.

Dance in Physical Space Dance in Virtual Space

Dance in a physical space at UIUC and virtual space at UIUC and UC Berkely.

The coordination requires one dancer to take the lead while the other follows by appropriate movement. Throughout the experiment, the dancers are dancing at various motion rates to evaluate how well the collaborative dancing is supported with the current technical boundary. Meanwhile, our multidisplay system helps the dancers to conveniently view from arbitrary angle and coordinate their body movements.
(Text adapted from Zhenyu Yang et al., in Proc. of ACM Multimedia (MM'06), Santa Barbara, CA, 2006 [pdf])

Dance in Physical Space

Dancing across thousands of miles.


People, Publications, Presentations

Team members

  • Professor Klara Nahrstedt
    Research group MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Professor Ruzena Bajcsy
    Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
  • Professor Peter Bajcsy
    Research group ISDA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
  • Renata Sheppard
    Department of Dance, UIUC
  • Professor Katherine Mezur
    Departments of Dance, Mills College
  • Professor Lisa Wymore
    Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
  • Gregorij Kurillo
    CITRIS tele-immersion, UC Berkeley
  • Ross Diankov
    CITRIS, UC Berkeley
  • Samuel Johnston
    CITRIS, UC Berkeley
  • Arthur Yeap
    CITRIS, UC Berkeley
  • Zhenyu Yang
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Muyuan Wang
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Wanmin Wu
    Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Hossein Mobahi
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Dongyun Jin
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Roger Cheng
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Ravishankar Sathyam
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Jin Liang
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Bin Yu
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Jigar Doshi
    MONET, Computer Science Department, UIUC
  • Miles Johnson
    ISDA, Aerospace Department, UIUC

The project was supported by the National Science Foundation and National Center for Supercomputing Applications.