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Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. Don't miss the video of this incredible demo from Microsoft.
Microsoft has already offered a few tantalizing glimpses at its Hololens technology, and the latest really shows off just how useful and natural the device might be for telepresence applications.
In the video below, Microsoft research manager Shahram Izadi demonstrated ‘holoportation,’ which allows him and the people he talks with to appear as if he’s there in real-time, anywhere in the world.
Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology from Microsoft that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time.
The sessions can even be played back previous as though “walking into a living memory,” and miniaturize the content to make it easier to consume. Perhaps even cooler is when Izadi decides to shrink himself and his daughter down with a gesture. These are the computer interactions we have only seen in movies!
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Microsoft was clever to set up the two capture facilities with the same dimensions and furniture, so that the participants interact with the virtual and the physical quite seamlessly in this demonstration. They walk around tables, not through them, and objects can be picked up and manipulated. When one participant sits down, it really looks like they have sat in the room with Izadi.“Imagine being able to virtually teleport from one place to another,” Izadi says. Well, if you’re the owner of a HoloLens, you soon could do.
So far there is little information when the Holoportation system might be available, but it does show that "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, your my only hope," is not far away from being yet another technology that jumps into reality from the science fiction screen.
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