Collaborate Disseminate
A huge donut-shaped pile of poop surrounding a giant Andean condor nest is not something you’d generally hope to (or be likely to) encounter when out on a hike in South America. That is, unless you’re a paleoecologist.Continue ReadingCategory: Environm… Continue reading Huge pile of condor poop provides a 2,200-year trip through time
[Dr. Roel Vertegaal] has led a team of collaborators from [Queen’s University] to build TeleHuman 2 — a telepresence setup that aims to project your actual-size likeness in 3D.
Developed primarily for business videoconferencing, the setup requires a bit of space on both ends of the call. A ring of stereoscopic z-cameras capture the subject from all angles which the corresponding projector on the other end displays. Those projectors are arranged in similar halo above a human-sized, retro-reflective cylindrical screen which can be walked around — viewing the image from any angle without a VR headset or glasses — in …read more
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