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jrshaw
06-11-2004, 01:08 PM
Stumbled across this, and thought it was interesting:

The InterView system consists of a bank of sub-$100 videocameras that capture the remote space. These images are streamed over the Internet and projected onto a custom display fashioned from inexpensive optical materials. The display carefully controls the multiple streams such that a viewer's left and right eyes can receive different images, resulting in the stereoscopic effect.

More details at Lab Notes (http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0604/canny.html), published by the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Also see the InterView homepage (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~nguyendt/InterView/).

If nothing else, I learned a new vocabulary word:

Deixis: refers to the use of gestures or gaze to bring someone's focus to a particular object.