Physical travel can be expensive and time consuming. For some
people with disabilities, physical travel may not even be
possible. The goal of the Mutually-immersive Mobile Telepresence
(BiReality) project is to provide a compelling, as well as
economically advantageous, alternative experience to physical
travel. This experience should be compelling for both the
remote person as well as the people he or she is visiting:
i.e., both mutually-immersive as well as allowing for mobility.
Mutually-immersive Mobile Telepresence uses a teleoperated
robotic surrogate to visit remote locations as a substitute
for physical travel. Our goal is to recreate to the greatest
extent practical, both for the user and the people at the
remote location, the sensory experience relevant for business
interactions of the user actually being in the remote location.
The system includes multi-channel bidirectional video and
audio on a mobile surrogate as well as haptic feedback. We
are currently working on Model 2, a second-generation surrogate
which preserves the height and sitting/standing posture of
the user.
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