Comment University of Tokyo did it first! (Score 1) 73
This is kind of interesting as the University of Tokyo came out with something similar with their Tele-Existance/Crystal Vision/X-tal Vision projects.
(Remember the article on slashdot about the "cloaking" technology they were working on?)
Though their goal appeared to be to project a user's image onto a robot dummy and have the robot do things remotely. (Which is probably overkill anyway.)
A while back, I wrote an article on how this could be applied to education, interestingly enough, which can be read here:
http://tatewake.com/WhatIsTheFutureOfDistanceLearn ing.htm
(Remember the article on slashdot about the "cloaking" technology they were working on?)
Though their goal appeared to be to project a user's image onto a robot dummy and have the robot do things remotely. (Which is probably overkill anyway.)
A while back, I wrote an article on how this could be applied to education, interestingly enough, which can be read here:
http://tatewake.com/WhatIsTheFutureOfDistanceLear
