HOLOPORTATION - A physical-virtual reality?
AR - Holoportation Holoportation our future reality? Since time immemorial, human interactions have always been physical, within arms reach. Fast forward to 1887 as conventional history suggests, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone! It was miracle to hear someone's voice hundreds of kilometers away. In the late 1970s and early 80's researchers worked on "the network of networks.' The idea was to facilitate communication between two or more computers, "Inter-networking" hence remodeled to what we now know as the Internet. A score of years down the line social media connectivity is booming! Despite having this instant form of sharing moments and connecting to our loved ones in real time, there is still a void, a craving for physical contact. Holoportation is an end-to-end audio visual virtual augmented reality tele-presence system that exploits the use of 3D technology capture and algorithms to reconstru...