TWISTER: Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope
A research team led by Susumu Tachi from the University of Tokyo has developed a rotating panoramic display that immerses viewers in a 3D video environment. The Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope, or TWISTER, is the world’s first full-color 360-degree 3D display that does not require viewers to wear special glasses, says professor Tachi, who has spent over 10 years researching and developing the device.
TWISTER
TWISTER (Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope) is an immersive full-color autostereoscopic display, designed for a face-to-face telecommunication system called “mutual telexistence”, where people in distant locations can communicate as if they were in the same virtual three dimensional space.
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Unlike most conventional tele-conferencing systems which limit the users’ viewpoint to a fixed position, mutual telexistence system should provide the images of the other users corresponding to the change of a user’s eye position in the computer generated three-dimensional space.
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TWISTER III (Telexistence Wideangle Immersive STEReoscope) provides an immersive 3D full-color/live motion pictures without eye-gear.
A cylindrical display rotating 30 display units around an observer presenting time-varying patterns. Autostereoscopic vision is acheived by employing a rotating parallax barrier.
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- TWISTER: Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope ::: Pink Tentacle
- TWISTER - Tachi Lab
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