CyPhone-experimenting mobile real-time telepresence

Advances in multimedia, virtual reality, and immersive environments have expanded human computer interaction beyond text and vision to include touch, gestures, voice and 3D sound. Although there exist well developed single modalities for communication, we do not really understand the general problem of designing integrated multimodal systems. Recent advances in mobile communication based on picocellular technologies allow the transmission of high bandwidth data over personal surrounding networks. We analyse the sources of real time constraints in telepresence and augmented reality applications. We offer an approach to adding aspects of mobility and augmented reality to real time mobile telepresence, discuss the technology and potential future product concept vision, the CyPhone, and depict the general architecture and integration framework briefly. Finally, a survey of relevant telecooperation services are introduced.