Roland Piquepaille reports:

""Tele-immersion is a technology which allows cooperative interaction between groups of distant people working in the same virtual environment.

It involves three real-time steps:

1) taking images of a subject with 48 cameras,

2) transmitting the images over a network, and

3) implanting them in a virtual world.

For example, it will allow students and professors on different campuses to meet -- virtually -- and discuss -- lively -- while being in ancient sites of Greece or Italy."

...

The new insights could be far-reaching.

...studying how people behave and trust each other in cyber environments."

Hot stuff.

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