TNG: "Almost eighteen years have past since our first idea and concept of telexistence was proposed, and it is now possible to telexist in the remote environment and/or virtual environment with a sensation of presence. We can have feelings that we are present in several real places and can work and act. However, those people in the place where someone telexists using a robot see only the robot but they can not feel that the person who presents. It is useless to use TV display on board the robot to show the face of the user. It would be just comical and far from reality.
Figure 1 illustrates the proposed method of mutual telexistence using X'tal vision based HMP (Head-Mounted Projector) in order to solve the above problem, i.e., to make a telexisted robot look like the user of the robot. A human user 'A' uses his telexistence robot 'A' at the remote site where another human user 'B' is present. The user 'B' also uses another telexistence robot 'B', which exists in the site where the user 'A' works. Both robots are painted with retro-reflective material and can be regarded as screens, and they are controlled by their users as conventional telexistence robots. The robots follow the motion of the users exactly the same manner as the users, respectively."
Figure 1 illustrates the proposed method of mutual telexistence using X'tal vision based HMP (Head-Mounted Projector) in order to solve the above problem, i.e., to make a telexisted robot look like the user of the robot. A human user 'A' uses his telexistence robot 'A' at the remote site where another human user 'B' is present. The user 'B' also uses another telexistence robot 'B', which exists in the site where the user 'A' works. Both robots are painted with retro-reflective material and can be regarded as screens, and they are controlled by their users as conventional telexistence robots. The robots follow the motion of the users exactly the same manner as the users, respectively."
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