Face-to-Face Tabletop Remote Collaboration in Mixed Reality

Minatani, Shinya; Kitahara, Itaru; Kameda, Yoshinari; Ohta, Yuichi

doi:10.1109/ismar.2007.4538823

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“…Examples for AR systems that support remote collaboration can be found in Billinghurst and Kato (1999), Höllerer et al (1999), Stafford et al (2006), Minatani et al (2007), Poelman et al (2012), Datcu et al (2014a), or Billinghurst and Thomas 517 Collaboration in Augmented Reality (2011). For example, WearCom (Billinghurst and Kato 1999) enables users to see remote collaborators as virtual avatars in real space.…”

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“…Stafford et al (2006) introduce a new interaction metaphor called Bgod-like interaction^which supports multi-scale interaction between outdoor wearable AR users and indoor users using a tabletop projector, and aims at improving sharing of situational and navigational information between remote users. Minatani et al (2007) describe a system that enables two distributed users to a play a tabletop game in an AR conferencing scenario. Poelman et al (2012) introduce and evaluate an AR system that allows remote experts to collaborate with local investigators on a crime scene investigation in order to secure evidence.…”

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Collaboration in Augmented Reality

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Billinghurst

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Abstract. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows users to view and interact in real time with virtual images seamlessly superimposed over the real world. AR systems can be used to create unique collaborative experiences. For example, co-located users can see shared 3D virtual objects that they interact with, or a user can annotate the live video view of a remote worker, enabling them to collaborate at a distance. The overall goal is to augment the face-to-face collaborative experience, or to enable remote people to feel that they are virtually co-located. In this special issue on collaboration in augmented reality, we begin with the visions of science fiction authors of future technologies that might significantly improve collaboration, then introduce research articles which describe progress towards these visions, finally we outline a research agenda discussing the work still to be done.

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Collaboration in Augmented Reality

Lukosch

Billinghurst

Alem³

et al. 2015

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“…MR makes it possible to seamlessly merge virtual objects into real world. More attention on the attempts to apply these techniques to remote collaborative work is being paid these years [5]- [9]. A remote MR system [5] that enables distant users to play Othello game was proposed.…”

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“…More attention on the attempts to apply these techniques to remote collaborative work is being paid these years [5]- [9]. A remote MR system [5] that enables distant users to play Othello game was proposed. It allows the users see each other and share the appearance of objects set on the top of a table.…”

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[POSTER] Remote Mixed Reality System Supporting Interactions with Virtualized Objects

Yang

Kitahara

Ohta

2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

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Figure 1: Example of remote collaborative work. From left to right: A local user with real objects. A remote user without real objects. The local user observes the operation performed by the remote user. Result of operation performed by the remote user. The local user operates the real objects. Final result of the remote collaborative work. ABSTRACTMixed Reality (MR) can merge real and virtual worlds seamlessly. This paper proposes a method to realize smooth collaboration using a remote MR, which makes it possible for geographically distributed users to share the same objects and communicate in real time as if they are at the same place. In this paper, we consider a situation where the users at local and remote sites perform a collaborative work, and real objects to be operated exist only at the local site. It is necessary to share the real objects between the two sites. However, prior studies have shown sharing real objects by duplication is either too costly or unrealistic. Therefore, we propose a method to share the objects by virtualizing the real objects using Computer Vision (CV) and then rendering the virtualized objects using MR. We have proposed a remote collaborative work system to create a smoother user experience for collaborative work with virtualized objects for remote users. Through experiments, we confirmed the effectiveness of our approach.

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“…Studies on remote collaboration have tried to emulate face-toface communication using different supports such as virtual reality [4] or videoconferencing. However, VR forces user to wear cumbersome equipment whereas VC fails when there is a need to collaborate on complex scenarios beyond documents and desktop sharing.…”

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