Telepointer: Hands-Free Completely Self Contained Wearable Visual Augmented Reality without Headwear and without any Infrastructural Reliance

Authors:
Steve Mann
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ISWC '00 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Telepointer is a wearable hands-free, headwear-free device that allows the wearer to experience a visual collaborative telepresence, with text, graphics, and a shared cursor, displayed directly on real world objects. A mobile person wears the device clipped onto his tie, which sends motion pictures to a video projector at a base (home) where another person can see everything the wearer sees. When the person at the base points a laser pointer at the projected image of the wearer's site, the wearer's aremac's servo's points a laser at the same thing the wearer is looking at. It is completely portable and can be used almost anywhere since it does not rely on infrastructure. It is operated through a Reality User Interfaces (RUI) that allows the person at the base to have DIRECT interaction with the real world of the wearer, establishing a kind of computing that is completely free of metaphors, in the sense that a laser at the base controls the wearable laser aremac.