Sensics Supplies NASA with HMD-Based Panoramic, High Resolution Telepresence System
Video Conferencing vs. Telepresence
Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.
Why Telepresence now?Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.
Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?
There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…
What are “real” savings of Telepresence?
Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.
You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!
Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!
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Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) February 26, 2008 ?- Sensics, the panoramic head-mounted display company, reported today that it successfully completed the delivery of a Phase II SBIR project for NASA, which included a unique panoramic, high-resolution telepresence system based on the piSight HMD line.
Deployed last year at the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center for the Robonaut, a humanoid robot developed by NASA and DARPA, the Sensics system includes a panoramic, high-resolution camera array and the piSight? panoramic, high-resolution head-mounted display.
The combined camera plus piSight system will serve as the "eyes" of the Robonaut. NASA's Robonaut system can work side by side with humans, or alone in high-risk situations. Telepresence uses virtual reality display technology to visually immerse the operator into the robot?s workspace, facilitating operation and interaction with the Robonaut.
From of the broad piSight product line, NASA selected the 150-43b model which is 150 degrees wide, 60 degrees tall, has strong stereoscopic overlap and displays 6 million full-color pixels per eye. The system is integrated with a precision six degree-of-freedom motion tracker. Video acquired through the camera array is compressed, sent over a low-bandwidth communications network and then displayed in full stereo inside the HMD.
"Since its commercial launch last year, the piSight line of panoramic HMDs has been selected by many demanding customers for a variety of simulation, training, design and research applications," said Dr. Larry Brown, president and founder of Sensics. ?We are very pleased to add NASA to our growing list of satisfied customers.?
About Sensics
Sensics, Inc., the panoramic head-mounted display company, offers a comprehensive line of panoramic, upgradeable, high-definition head-mounted displays. Unlike competing HMDs that feature narrow field of view, limited resolution or both, Sensics offers fully-immersive displays and up to 10 million pixels per eye. Over 35 different upgradeable models are offered, designed to meet a wide range of performance and budget specifications. Sensics products are used worldwide to enable new and improved virtual reality applications for training, virtual prototyping, visualization and remote presence. For additional information, visit www.sensics.com
About the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Established in September 1961, first as the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Johnson Space Center is NASA's primary center for design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human space flight. This center selects and trains a cadre of astronauts for space missions, and is extensively involved in medical, engineering and scientific experiments carried aboard space flights. For additional information, visit www.jsc.nasa.gov
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Larry Brown, President
Tel: +1 443 927 9200
Sensics, the Sensics logo and the piSight are trademarks of Sensics, Inc
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