BeamLite: Diminishing Ecological Fractures of Remote Collaboration through Mixed Reality Environments

Jasche, Florian; Kirchhübel, Jasmin; Ludwig, Thomas; Tolmie, Peter

doi:10.1145/3461564.3461566

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“…Jasche et al [24] present BeamLite, a shared MR space that can be used at the same time by co-located and remote participants using AR or VR headsets. Speicher et al [46] introduce XD-AR, a toolkit to unify various types of mixed-reality devices (e.g.…”

Section: Multi-party Shared Spacesmentioning

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SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Echtler,

Maierhöfer,

Hansen

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Real-time online interaction is the norm today. Tabletops and other dedicated interactive surface devices with direct input and tangible interaction can enhance remote collaboration, and open up new interaction scenarios based on mixed physical/virtual components. However, they are only available to a small subset of users, as they usually require identical bespoke hardware for every participant, are complex to setup, and need custom scenario-specific applications.We present SurfaceCast, a software toolkit designed to merge multiple distributed, heterogeneous end-user devices into a single, shared mixed-reality surface. Supported devices include regular desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mixed-reality headsets, as well as projector-camera setups and dedicated interactive tabletop systems. This device-agnostic approach provides a fundamental building block for exploration of a far wider range of usage scenarios than previously feasible, including future clients using our provided API.In this paper, we discuss the software architecture of SurfaceCast, present a formative user study and a quantitative performance analysis of our framework, and introduce five example application scenarios which we enhance through the multi-user and multi-device features of the framework. Our results show that the hardware- and content-agnostic architecture of SurfaceCast can run on a wide variety of devices with sufficient performance and fidelity for real-time interaction.

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Section: Multi-party Shared Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Echtler,

Maierhöfer,

Hansen

et al. 2023

Preprint

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BeHere: a VR/SAR remote collaboration system based on virtual replicas sharing gesture and avatar in a procedural task

Wang

Billinghurst

et al. 2023

Virtual Reality

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In this paper, we focus on the significance of remote collaboration using virtual replicas, avatar, and gesture on a procedural task in industry; thus, we present a Virtual Reality (VR)/Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) remote collaboration system, BeHere, based on 3D virtual replicas and sharing gestures and avatar. BeHere enables a remote expert in VR to guide a local worker in real-time to complete a procedural task in the real-world. For the remote VR site, we construct a 3D virtual environment using virtual replicas, and the user can manipulate them by using gestures in an intuitive interaction and see their partners’ 3D virtual avatar. For the local site, we use SAR to enable the local worker to see instructions projected onto the real-world based on the shared virtual replicas and gestures. We conducted a formal user study to evaluate the prototype system in terms of performance, social presence, workload, and ranking and user preference. We found that the combination of visual cues of gestures, avatar, and virtual replicas plays a positive role in improving user experience, especially for remote VR users. More significantly, our study provides useful information and important design implications for further research on the use of gesture-, gaze- and avatar-based cues as well as virtual replicas in VR/AR remote collaboration on a procedural task in industry. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10055-023-00748-5.

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SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Echtler,

Maierhöfer,

Hansen

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Real-time online interaction is the norm today. Tabletops and other dedicated interactive surface devices with direct input and tangible interaction can enhance remote collaboration, and open up new interaction scenarios based on mixed physical/virtual components. However, they are only available to a small subset of users, as they usually require identical bespoke hardware for every participant, are complex to setup, and need custom scenario-specific applications. We present SurfaceCast, a software toolkit designed to merge multiple distributed, heterogeneous end-user devices into a single, shared mixed-reality surface. Supported devices include regular desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mixed-reality headsets, as well as projector-camera setups and dedicated interactive tabletop systems. This device-agnostic approach provides a fundamental building block for exploration of a far wider range of usage scenarios than previously feasible, including future clients using our provided API. In this paper, we discuss the software architecture of SurfaceCast, present a formative user study and a quantitative performance analysis of our framework, and introduce five example application scenarios which we enhance through the multi-user and multi-device features of the framework. Our results show that the hardware- and content-agnostic architecture of SurfaceCast can run on a wide variety of devices with sufficient performance and fidelity for real-time interaction.

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BeamLite: Diminishing Ecological Fractures of Remote Collaboration through Mixed Reality Environments

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

BeHere: a VR/SAR remote collaboration system based on virtual replicas sharing gesture and avatar in a procedural task

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

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