Google's new 3D video call system brings distant people in the same room
The Hindu
The new system enables the full range of communication cues including eye contact, hand gestures, and body language, yet does not require special glasses or body-worn microphones or headphones.
Google has revealed details about their new real-time bi-directional communication system that lets two people, separated by distance, experience a face-to-face conversation as if they were actually present in front of each other in the same room.
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"We carefully design and engineer the physical layout, lighting, 3D capture, compression, rendering, display, and audio subsystems to eliminate as many hints as possible that the remote participant is not in the same room as the user," Google said in its research paper titled 'Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system'.
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