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:
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 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])
Dancing across thousands of miles.