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conference   : 3DTV-CON 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, 15-17 October, 2012
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year         : 2012
month        : October
title        : Towards Next Generation 3D Teleconferencing Systems
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author       : C. Kuster, N. Ranieri, Agustina, H. Zimmer, J.C. Bazin, C. Sun, T.Popa, M. Gross
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keywords     : 3D teleconferencing, 3D display, 3D acquisition
abstract     : Teleconferencing is becoming more and more important and popular in today’s society and is mostly accomplished using 2D video conferencing systems. However, we believe there is a lot of room for improving the communication experience: one crucial aspect is to add 3D information, but also freeing the user from sitting in front of a computer. With these improvements, we aim at eventually creating a fully immersive 3D telepresence system that might improve the way we communicate over long distances. In this paper we review and analyze existing technology to achieve this goal and present a proof-of-concept, but fully functional prototype.