Sharing one's own immersive experience over the Internet is one of the ultimate goals of telepresence technology. In this paper, we present JackIn Head, a visual telepresence system featuring an omnidirectional wearable camera with image motion stabilization. Spherical omnidirectional video footage taken around the head of a local user is stabilized and then broadcast to others, allowing remote users to explore the immersive visual environment independently of the local user's head direction. We describe the system design of JackIn Head and report the evaluation results of real-time image stabilization and alleviation of cybersickness. Then, through an exploratory observation study, we investigate how individuals can remotely interact, communicate with, and assist each other with our system. We report our observation and analysis of inter-personal communication, demonstrating the effectiveness of our system in augmenting remote collaboration.

Figure 1: We found that preserving the user's agency while they are accelerated using a haptic device, such as electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), is key to retaining a faster reaction time afer removing the haptic device. In our study, we used EMS to accelerate participants as they pressed a button when they saw an LED fash (inspired by taking a photo of a target).

No abstract

No abstract