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Teleconferencing is poised to become one of the most frequent use cases of immersive platforms, since it supports high levels of presence and embodiment in collaborative settings. On desktop and mobile platforms, teleconferencing solutions are already ...

Hybrid video calls include attendees in a conference room with loudspeakers and remote attendees using headsets, each with different options for rendering sound spatially. Two studies explored the listener experience with spatial audio in video calls. ...

Our perception of emotion is highly contextual. Changes in the environment can affect our narrative framing, and thus augment our emotional perception of interlocutors. User environments are typically heavily suppressed due to the technical limitations ...

We present GSO-Simulcast, a new architecture designed for large-scale multi-party video-conferencing systems. GSO-Simulcast is currently deployed at full-scale in Alibaba's Dingtalk video conferencing that serves more than 500 million users. It marks a ...

We study experiences of students attending classes remotely from home using a social VR platform, considering both desktop-based and headset-based viewing of remote lectures. Ratings varied widely. Headset viewing produced higher presence overall. ...

The recent need for social-distancing caused by COVID-19 resulted in working remotely, which can cause loneliness and disconnect from the organization. The pandemic stimulated people to look for novel ways to interact and, at the same time, socialize ...

Many employees who join work video meetings remotely are frustrated by technological constraints on their engagement. While we should seek to deepen engagement for those who want it, in this paper we explore how low engagement by remote employees in ...

When designing 3D applications it is necessary to find a compromise between cost (e.g. money, time) and achievable realism of the virtual environment. Reusing existing assets has an impact on the uniqueness of the application and creating high quality 3D ...

In this paper, we propose a system that presents correct gaze directions of each user in a group-to-group video conference. It is known that gaze direction plays a significant role in face-to-face communication. However, in ordinary video conference ...

Most teleconferencing tools treat users in distributed meetings monolithically: all participants are meant to be interconnected in more-or-less the same manner. In practice, people connect to meetings in different contexts, sometimes sitting in front of ...

The ability to transmit video and carry real‐time multimedia applications such as video‐streaming, video conferencing and mobile TV are considered important to support the viability and survivability of next generation mobile wireless networks. High peak ...

Establishing common ground is one of the key problems for any form of communication. The problem is particularly pronounced in remote meetings, in which participants can easily lose track of the details of dialogue for any number of reasons. In this ...

NDN-RTC is a videoconferencing library that employs Named Data Networking (NDN), a proposed future Internet architecture. It was designed to provide a platform for experimental research in low-latency, real-time multimedia communication over NDN. It ...

Thanks to the maturity of motion tracking technologies, it became easy and inexpensive to use avatars that reflect the user's facial and body motions in real time. There is a possibility that those real-time avatars can serve as a substitute for videos ...

This paper presents 3D-Board, a digital whiteboard capable of capturing life-sized virtual embodiments of geographically distributed users. When using large-scale screens for remote collaboration, awareness for the distributed users' gestures and ...

Since the 1950s, the crew required to fly transport category aircraft has been reduced from five to two. NASA is currently exploring the feasibility of a further reduction to one pilot. In this study we examine the effects of separating the pilots on ...

Telepresence robotics is a sophisticated form of robotic remote control in which a human operator has a sense of being on location -- that is, of being telepresent. I propose a demonstration of two telepresence robots, one floor model (VGo) and one ...

In this experience report we describe the accessibility challenges that deaf and hard of hearing committee members faced while collaborating with a larger group of hearing committee members over a period of 2½ years. We explain what some recurring ...

We present PanoInserts: a novel teleconferencing system that uses smartphone cameras to create a surround representation of meeting places. We take a static panoramic image of a location into which we insert live videos from smartphones. We use a ...

Systems for multi-camera telepresence utilizing Large High-Resolution Displays (LHRDs) face the problem of generating large amounts of dynamic data. These data have to be processed at the local capture site, aggregated from different nodes locally, ...