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UNC Researchers Demonstrate Tele-Immersion

Posted by timothy on from the can-I-watch-ally-mcbeal-with-this? dept.

bughunter writes: "Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have successfully demonstrated Tele-immersion, the next step in virtual reality which allows the live transmission of 3-dimensional representation of real scenes. Don't look for tele-immersed streaming porn just yet; it seems the sheer volume of bandwidth the demonstration consumed caused a minor panic among the Internet 2 gateway admins at UNC."

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  1. Ob. Futurama Reference by Mignon · · Score: 4

    I can't wait to play Virtual Virtual Skeeball on one of these. It'll be just like playing Virtual Skeeball!

  2. Details about the project by magic · · Score: 5
    Details about the project are available at the group's website: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/teleimmersion/i ndex.html.

    Scientific papers (with specs) at: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/teleimmersion/p ubs.html

    -m