Resources

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Inspiration

Future Visions / Fictions of Distance Collaboration

Sun Microsystems, 1994 StarFire - a canonical example of telepresence possibilities that’s horribly dated now.

BERG’s supercut of Videophones in film

Telepresense & Telematics

Xerox PARC. John Tang & ScottMinneman, 1991. VideoWhiteboard

Microsoft Research’s Illumishare

A Hybrid Hydrostatic Transmission and Human-Safe Haptic Telepresence Robot

MIT Media Lab’s inFORM

Holographics

Holographic hosts allow remote participants to be embodied in place like this Holographic host at Leeds Station

Group Collaboration

NYT Lab’s Listening Table (2014)

Nearables and Wearables

Mixed and Augmented Reality

Microsoft HoloLens - Possibilities

Tools and Technologies

  • Capio - Next Gen Speech Recogition Technology
  • OpenCV - face detection toolkits
  • Wit.ai - Natural Language Toolkits
  • Estimote Developer Portal - for working with beacon technologies, indoor localisation, etc.

Sites and other Resources