VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas

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Autori principali: Huang, Xincheng, Yin, Michael, Xia, Ziyi, Xiao, Robert
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Huang, Xincheng
Yin, Michael
Xia, Ziyi
Xiao, Robert
author_facet Huang, Xincheng
Yin, Michael
Xia, Ziyi
Xiao, Robert
contents Asymmetric AR/VR collaboration systems bring a remote VR user to a local AR user's physical environment, allowing them to communicate and work within a shared virtual/physical space. Such systems often display the remote environment through 3D reconstructions or 360-degree videos. While 360-degree cameras stream an environment in higher quality, they lack spatial information, making them less interactable. We present VirtualNexus, an AR/VR collaboration system that enhances 360-degree video AR/VR collaboration with environment cutouts and virtual replicas. VR users can define cutouts of the remote environment to interact with as a world-in-miniature, and their interactions are synchronized to the local AR perspective. Furthermore, AR users can rapidly scan and share 3D virtual replicas of physical objects using neural rendering. We demonstrated our system's utility through 3 example applications and evaluated our system in a dyadic usability test. VirtualNexus extends the interaction space of 360-degree telepresence systems, offering improved physical presence, versatility, and clarity in interactions.
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spellingShingle VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas
Huang, Xincheng
Yin, Michael
Xia, Ziyi
Xiao, Robert
Human-Computer Interaction
Asymmetric AR/VR collaboration systems bring a remote VR user to a local AR user's physical environment, allowing them to communicate and work within a shared virtual/physical space. Such systems often display the remote environment through 3D reconstructions or 360-degree videos. While 360-degree cameras stream an environment in higher quality, they lack spatial information, making them less interactable. We present VirtualNexus, an AR/VR collaboration system that enhances 360-degree video AR/VR collaboration with environment cutouts and virtual replicas. VR users can define cutouts of the remote environment to interact with as a world-in-miniature, and their interactions are synchronized to the local AR perspective. Furthermore, AR users can rapidly scan and share 3D virtual replicas of physical objects using neural rendering. We demonstrated our system's utility through 3 example applications and evaluated our system in a dyadic usability test. VirtualNexus extends the interaction space of 360-degree telepresence systems, offering improved physical presence, versatility, and clarity in interactions.
title VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02914