A multi-site teleconferencing system using VR paradigms

This paper discusses early results in a televirtuality project named "TRAIVI". The goal of this project is to create and run multi-site meetings via low bit-rate links and virtual reality paradigms. We propose to enable several persons located at different physical sites to meet each other in a common virtual meeting room. In order to preserve a high level of realism, we describe how it is possible to animate 3D human-like synthetic interfaces based on "CYBERWARE" models, and how they can be immersed in a common virtual meeting space created from a limited set of real room pictures.