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holoportation: virtual 3D teleportation in real-time (Microsoft Research)

I3D Past Projects · 3.6M views · 2016-03-25 · 4:47

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Microsoft Research demonstrates holoportation, which reconstructs and compresses high-quality 3D models of people in real time and sends them anywhere. With a HoloLens, remote participants appear as if present in your room.

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Cited as the benchmark demo for telepresence and photorealistic avatars, in discussions of remote work and VR.

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gernb · 2023-01 · Criticism

Tons of AR demos try to show this feature. Tons of companies are working on it. Most believe it's a mass market feature. [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] But it's unlikely to work because each person's surroundings don't match every other persons. One's at a desk, One's at a cafe, One's in their bed, One's on their soft. They aren't each positioned in a way they can all appear in each others AR.

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14 · 2020-02 · Reference

I really think that in the future people will use something like holoportation[0] to work at home or remotely across the world. Because like you say sometimes it makes sense to be present with a person to accomplish a task. It is very hard if they are trying to describe something when it would only take half a moment to visually look yourself and understand the direction the person is coming from. Holoportation looks very neat I really hope I get to try it one day. [0]: [VIDEO]

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dougmwne · 2017-04 · Reference

This is a pretty clever way to avoid the uncanny valley for VR videoconferencing. I assume we're a long way from photorealistic avatars based on the holoportation demo from MS. [VIDEO]

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