The audio and video inputs can be streamed to a remote location for video conferencing. And DreamSpace knows where a person is, and can send just those pixels. Or, it can send just the upper body or head, and perhaps show the hands only when there are significant movements. The following triptych illustrates the automatic tracking feature. As researcher Athicha Muthitacharoen walks around the room, DreamSpace tracks her outline, and chunks of pixels are cropped and sent to a remote location.
Computer graphics rendering power is provided by a standard graphics accelerator card.
An ATM network link to an SP allows for additional application processing power. Simpler PCs have also been used. A new display technology from IBM will deliver better performance for a fraction of the price. And smaller displays costs much less. I believe that computers can be designed from the ground up to be as easy and natural to use as, say, talking to your best friend, your mom, your cat.