top of page

Enhancing Design Education through Real-time Virtual Teleportation

Principal Investigator

Advances in ICT enable to hold remote conversations in 3D, commonly referred to as "Virtual Teleportation". Simply put, a person is scanned at one place and displayed as a hologram in another, in real time. As this technology offers a new form of remote communication, it bears great promises for future educational practices. In this project, a system for virtual teleportation is being implemented and tested. By allowing students to communicate with remote holographic instructors, we explore futuristic scenarios in design education. The valuable feedback collected from potential users is used as a springboard for enhancing the system, towards its integration into real-world educational scenarios.

Duration. July 2022 - Ongoing

Collaborators. Oki Takuya, Momoko Nakatani, Jiang Zhu, Hu Weiheng, Zhu Yichuan, Fujii Haruyuki

Affiliation. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), School of Environment and Society, Architecture & Building Engineering Department

Lab. Fujii Lab for Design Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Funding Body. Laboratory for Design of Social Innovation in Global Networks (DLab), Tokyo Tech, Japan

Hardware. Microsoft Azure Kinect, Microsoft HoloLens 2

bottom of page