Blue-c: A spatially immersive display and 3D video portal for telepresence

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 819-827

  Gross, Markus ^a   Würmlin, Stephan ^a   Naef, Martin ^a   Lamboray, Edouard ^a   Spagno, Christian ^a   Kunz, Andreas ^a   Koller Meier, Esther ^a   Svoboda, Tomas ^a   Van Gool, Luc ^a   Lang, Silke ^a   Strehlke, Kai ^a   Moere, Andrew Vande ^a   Staadt, Oliver ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D Video; Graphics Hardware; Real time Graphics; Spatially Immersive Displays; Virtual Environments

Indexed keywords

3D VIDEO; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; REAL-TIME GRAPHICS; SPATIALLY IMMERSIVE DISPLAYS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GLASS; LIGHTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 27144511500     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 07300301     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/882262.882350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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