Professor Roel Vertegaal’s new light field displays effectively simulate teleportation A Queen’s University researcher will soon unveil TeleHuman 2 – the world’s first truly holographic vide... Read more
DORA—the Dextrous Observational Roving Automaton—is a new kind of robot. Its job isn’t to replace humans by performing tasks more efficiently. Instead, it interacts with human users and serv... Read more
MIT’s Tangible Media Group has created a new shape display technology called InFORM that allows users to reach out online and interact with physical objects in a different location. The tech... Read more
“In the future, we can do all of this 3-D video conferencing on the phone,” Nik Karpinsky quickly tapped out a few computer commands until Zeus, in all his bearded and statuesque glory, appe... Read more
Eye contact is one of the most important elements of non-verbal communication The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin has made a breakthrough in direct eye to eye contact for video... Read more
LiveMinutes is worth a try. There are still a number of pain points with existing web conferencing platforms, including having to install software, complicated pricing plans, poor usability,... Read more
In yet another instance of science imitating science fiction, researchers are inching toward the sort of three-dimensional “telepresence” technology that Princess Leia used to co... Read more