TY - CHAP A1 - Ryskeldiev, Bektur A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens T1 - Applying rotational tracking and photospherical imagery to immersive mobile telepresence and live video streaming groupware T2 - Proceeding SA '17 SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Mobile Graphics & Interactive Applications, Article No. 5 N2 - Mobile live video streaming is becoming an increasingly popular form of interaction both in social media and remote collaboration scenarios. However, in most cases the streamed video does not take mobile devices' spatial data into account (e.g., the viewers do not know the spatial orientation of a streamer), or use such data only in specific scenarios (e.g., to navigate around a spherical video stream). KW - spatial media KW - rotational tracking KW - mixed reality KW - live streaming KW - social media KW - telepresence KW - mobile computing KW - groupware KW - photospherical imagery Y1 - 2017 UR - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3132787.3132813 SN - 978-1-4503-5410-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3132787.3132813 PB - ACM CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ryskeldiev, Bektur A1 - Igarashi, Toshiharu A1 - Zhang, Junjian A1 - Ochiai, Yoichi A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens T1 - Spotility: Crowdsourced Telepresence for Social and Collaborative Experiences in Mobile Mixed Reality T2 - ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '18) N2 - Live video streaming is becoming increasingly popular as a form of interaction in social applications. One of its main advantages is an ability to immediately create and connect a community of remote users on the spot. In this paper we discuss how this feature can be used for crowdsourced completion of simple visual search tasks (such as finding specific objects in libraries and stores, or navigating around live events) and social interactions through mobile mixed reality telepresence interfaces. We present a prototype application that allows users to create a mixed reality space with a photospherical imagery as a background and interact with other connected users through viewpoint, audio, and video sharing, as well as realtime annotations in mixed reality space. Believing in the novelty of our system, we conducted a short series of interviews with industry professionals on the possible applications of our system. We discuss proposed use-cases for user evaluation, as well as outline future extensions of our system. KW - Groupware KW - Mixed reality KW - Mobile computing KW - Remote collaboration KW - Spatial media KW - M KW - FHD Y1 - 2018 UR - http://vsvr.medien.hs-duesseldorf.de/publications/cscw2018-spotility-abstract.html SN - 978-1-4503-6018-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274100 N1 - Zugriff auf den Volltext via ACM-Datenbank SP - 373 EP - 376 PB - ACM CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ryskeldiev, Bektur A1 - Ochiai, Yoichi A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens T1 - Distributed Metaverse: Creating Decentralized Blockchain-based Model for Peer-to-peer Sharing of Virtual Spaces for Mixed Reality Applications T2 - Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference N2 - Mixed reality telepresence is becoming an increasingly popular form of interaction in social and collaborative applications. We are interested in how created virtual spaces can be archived, mapped, shared, and reused among different applications. Therefore, we propose a decentralized blockchain-based peer-to-peer model of distribution, with virtual spaces represented as blocks. We demonstrate the integration of our system in a collaborative mixed reality application and discuss the benefits and limitations of our approach. KW - Blockchain KW - Groupware KW - Mixed Reality KW - Mobile Computing KW - Photospherical Imagery Y1 - 2018 UR - http://vsvr.medien.hs-duesseldorf.de/publications/ah2018-blockchain-streamspace-abstract.html SN - 978-1-4503-5415-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174952 SP - 7 EP - 9 PB - ACM ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Cohen, Michael T1 - The Helical Keyboard: Perspectives for Spatial Auditory Displays and Visual Music JF - Journal of New Music Research N2 - Auditory displays with the ability to dynamically spatialize virtual sound sources under real-time conditions enable advanced applications for art and music. A listener can be deeply immersed while interacting and participating in the experience. We review some of those applications while focusing on the Helical Keyboard project and discussing the required technology. Inspired by the cyclical nature of octaves and helical structure of a scale, a model of a piano-style keyboard was prepared, which was then geometrically warped into a helicoidal configuration, one octave/revolution, pitch mapped to height and chroma. It can be driven by MIDI events, real-time or sequenced, which stream is both synthesized and spatialized by a spatial sound display. The sound of the respective notes is spatialized with respect to sinks, avatars of the human user, by default in the tube of the helix. Alternative coloring schemes can be applied, including a color map compatible with chromastereoptic eyewear. The graphical display animates polygons, interpolating between the notes of a chord across the tube of the helix. Recognition of simple chords allows directionalization of all the notes of a major triad from the position of its musical root. The system is designed to allow, for instance, separate audition of harmony and melody, commonly played by the left and right hands, respectively, on a normal keyboard. Perhaps the most exotic feature of the interface is the ability to fork oneís presence, replicating subject instead of object by installing multiple sinks at arbitrary places around a virtual scene so that, for example, harmony and melody can be separately spatialized, using two heads to normalize the octave; such a technique effectively doubles the helix from the perspective of a single listener. Rather than a symmetric arrangement of the individual helices, they are perceptually superimposed in-phase, co-extensively, so that corresponding notes in different registers are at the same azimuth. KW - 3D audio KW - virtual reality KW - computer music KW - spatialization KW - spatial media KW - visual music KW - VSVR Y1 - 2002 VL - 31 IS - 3 SP - 269 EP - 281 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Martens, William T1 - Panel: Eartop computing and cyberspatial audio technology T2 - IEEE-VR2001: IEEE Virtual Reality KW - VSVR Y1 - 2001 SN - 0-7695-0948-7 SP - 322 EP - 323 PB - IEEE CY - Yokohama ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ryskeldiev, Bektur A1 - Cohen, Michael A1 - Herder, Jens T1 - StreamSpace: Pervasive Mixed Reality Telepresence for Remote Collaboration on Mobile Devices JF - Journal of Information Processing N2 - We present a system that exploits mobile rotational tracking and photospherical imagery to allow users to share their environment with remotely connected peers “on the go.” We surveyed related interfaces and developed a unique groupware application that shares a mixed reality space with spatially-oriented live video feeds. Users can collaborate through realtime audio, video, and drawings in a virtual space. The developed system was tested in a preliminary user study, which confirmed an increase in spatial and situational awareness among viewers as well as reduction in cognitive workload. Believing that our system provides a novel style of collaboration in mixed reality environments, we discuss future applications and extensions of our prototype. KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Telepresence KW - Remote Collaboration KW - Mixed Reality KW - Live Video Streaming Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.26.177 VL - 26 SP - 177 EP - 185 PB - J-STAGE ER -