This is the future of video conferencing!
The Skype & Google Hangouts will soon look jurassic as the NTT's technology finds its way in the mainstream. The company recently demonstrated a technology called "real time wave front synthesis" and combined with with Kinect & 3D video to reproduce pictures and sound from a distant location while creating a natural sense of distance and position. The overall feeling is as if you're in the same room as the person you are interacting with.
The system uses 64 microphones that collect the sound from the distant virtual room and then reproduces the sound using 96 speakers at the back of the display. Kinect and 3D cameras are used to pick up the video using user's viewpoint and then NTT's complex algorithms combine these to put the user 'virtually' in the remote location.
Check out following video that spans 2:35 minutes, but would give you an idea of how the future of video conferencing will look like -
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The system uses 64 microphones that collect the sound from the distant virtual room and then reproduces the sound using 96 speakers at the back of the display. Kinect and 3D cameras are used to pick up the video using user's viewpoint and then NTT's complex algorithms combine these to put the user 'virtually' in the remote location.
Check out following video that spans 2:35 minutes, but would give you an idea of how the future of video conferencing will look like -
Via: #-Link-Snipped-#
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