"BiReality: Mutually Immersive Mobile Telepresence"

i know we have our own talk tonight, but thought id spread news. figure people here knew of this work in some respect or another. its at harvey mudd college (hmc) out in claremont.

---

"BiReality: Mutually Immersive Mobile Telepresence"

Norman Jouppi, HP Fellow
HP Labs

Wednesday, September 29
Galileo Hall, HMC
7:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Lecture followed by a dessert reception

BiReality uses a teleoperated robotic surrogate to visit remote locations as a substitute for physical travel. The goal is to create, both for the user and the people at the remote location, the sensory experience relevant for face-to-face interactions. The second-generation system provides a 360-degree surround immersive audio and visual experience for both the user and remote participants, and streams eight high-quality video streams totaling almost 20Mb/s over wireless networking. The system preserves gaze and eye contact, presents local and remote participants to each other at life size, and preserves the head height of the user at the remote location. This talk focuses on some of the human factors addressed by the project, and includes a short video demonstration.

Norman P. Jouppi is currently a staff fellow at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. From 1984 through 1996 he was also a consulting assistant/associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where he taught classes in VLSI, circuits, and computer architecture. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1984, and a M.S.E.E. from Northwestern University in 1980. He currently serves as ACM SIGARCH vice chair.

His research interests include audio, video and physical telepresence as well as computer architecture. In recent years, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of advanced graphics accelerators, including Neon. Before that he was one of the principal architects and implementors of the MultiTitan and BIPS microprocessors implementors of the MIPS microprocessor, as well as a developer of techniques for CMOS VLSI timing verification. He holds more than 20 U.S. patents and has published over 80 technical papers.