We’ve come a long way from putting on those dopey colored or polarized glasses to do it: A pair of University of California at Berkeley computer scientists says they are building office videoconferencing that adds a third dimension to standard streaming video – glasses not needed.
“The dynamics people have when they’re working in the same room… are all taken away when you meet over a 2-D videoconference link,” one of the pair, David Nguyen, told Technology Review.
Nguyen joined with John Canny to build the system. They call it an array of seven cameras, each giving a slightly differing view, linking via computer to seven video projectors, Technology Review said. A multilayer screen trains each projector's light so a viewer's left and right eyes take images from adjacent cameras and create a kind of stereo visual effect.
Nguyen and Canny plan to finish a prototype they can present to potential licensees by the end of next year, the publication said.
