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.
Design conversation in Mixed Reality using our system
Virtual instructor presenting a scale model to a design student (student's view)
Design conversation in Mixed Reality using our system
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