Viewport: A Distributed, Immersive Teleconferencing System with Infrared Dot Pattern

The Viewport immersive teleconferencing system reconstructs sparse 3D representations for each user and applies virtual seating to maintain the same seating geometry as face-to-face meetings. In this article, we propose a fully distributed immersive teleconferencing system that assumes there is only one user at each station during the conference. Such a system would allow users to conduct meetings in their own offices for greatest convenience. Compared with group conferencing systems, fully distributed systems let us render the light and sound fields from a single user's viewpoint at each site, which demands less of the system hardware.