[AG-TECH] AG ACM SIGGRAPH Pro Ch Seminar Fri 19th Oct Martin Naef "Concurrent Projection and Acquisition"

[Martin Turner]

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Martin Naef, Digital Design Studio, The Glasgow School of Art "Concurrent Projection and Acquisition" 

Friday 19th October 2007, 2-3pm Room 1:10, Kilburn Building The University of Manchester

This talk presents a line of work that combines digital projection systems with user acquisition. The blue-c tele-presence system for the first time combined real-time 3D user acquisition with an immersive projection system to enable a full 3D real-time remote avatar. Despite the technical break-through, the original blue-c acquisition system was not widely deployed due to its significant complexity and resource requirements. Instead, the tele-presence idea was further developed by scaling it down into a more affordable system that could be retrofitted to existing spatially immersive displays. Inverting the original problem, the Living Canvas initiative finally aims to restrict projection onto a performer on stage. It brings the concepts and technology from the aforementioned tele-presence systems into a completely new and exciting application domain.

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Best regards,

Martin Turner Mob: +44 7990 918 509 Tel: +44 161 275 0613 


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