Mixed reality in virtual world teleconferencing

Author

Kantonen, Tuomas ; Woodward, Charles ; Katz, Neil

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

fYear

2010

fDate

20-24 March 2010

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

182

Abstract

In this paper we present a Mixed Reality (MR) teleconferencing application based on Second Life (SL) and the OpenSim virtual world. Augmented Reality (AR) techniques are used for displaying virtual avatars of remote meeting participants in real physical spaces, while Augmented Virtuality (AV), in form of video based gesture detection, enables capturing of human expressions to control avatars and to manipulate virtual objects in virtual worlds. The use of Second Life for creating a shared augmented space to represent different physical locations allows us to incorporate the application into existing infrastructure. The application is implemented using open source Second Life viewer, ARToolKit and OpenCV libraries.

Keywords

augmented reality; avatars; teleconferencing; OpenSim virtual world; augmented reality; augmented virtuality; mixed reality; second life; video based gesture detection; virtual avatars; virtual world teleconferencing; Augmented reality; Augmented virtuality; Avatars; Humans; Libraries; Object detection; Second Life; Teleconferencing; Video sharing; Virtual reality; Second Life; collaborative augmented reality; immersive virtual environments; mixed reality; teleconferencing; virtual worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality Conference (VR), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

ISSN

1087-8270

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6237-7

Electronic_ISBN

1087-8270

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2010.5444792

Filename

5444792