The blue-c project: Building an advanced collaborative virtual environment.

Zurich. The goal of this project is to build a collaborative, immersive
virtual environment which will eventually integrate real objects, captured
in real-time by a set of video cameras. Two blue-c portals will be
interconnected via a high-speed network. This will allow for bi-directional
collaboration and interaction between two persons sharing virtual spaces.
The video streams are used for both texture and geometry extraction. We will
generate a geometry-enhanced video stream, which will be integrated into the
virtual environment. The design and construction of the blue-c environment,
including both hardware and software, is an interdisciplinary effort with
collaborator from the departments of computer science, architecture, product
development, and electrical engineering. Parallel to the development of the
core system, we are designing new applications in the areas of computer
aided architectural design, product reviewing, and medicine, which will
highlight the versatility of the blue-c.