Symmetric and Asymmetric Immersive Telepresence Systems

Location: LT1 The Exchange Building (Central Teaching Facility) Jubilee Campus
Date(s): Tuesday 8th December 2009 (12:15-13:15)
Contact: Samantha Stapleford Tel: 0115 9514225 Email: samantha.stapleford@nottingham.ac.uk
Description: Speaker: Professor Anthony Steed
Professor Anthony Steed is head of the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. His research interests are in real-time interactive virtual environments, with particular interest in mixed-reality systems, large-scale models and collaboration between immersive facilities. He is also the director of the Engineering Doctorate Centre in Virtual Environment, Imaging and Visualisation at UCL. He is co-author of the book Networked Graphics: Building Networked Virtual Environments and Networked Games published by Morgan Kaufman in December 2009. In this talk Anthony will give an overview of several recent projects which all touch on the issue of reproducing face to face communication at a distance.

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