1)
Roaming Close Up
This
is a client for viewing streaming video. First a high resolution still image
of the studio background is displayed. A small rectangle of full motion
streaming video of a zoomed in shot from the studio camera is then superimposed
on the wide shot. The rectangle of video moves around on the client's machine
depending on what the camera in the studio is aimed at. Another version
had the video leave a trail so that the background would always be updated
by the video passing over it.
2)
Video Cursor
This
is a software system for broadcasting video commentary about very precise
part of web pages. This software allows one person to stream an image of
themsleves talking in a small window that floats above the web pages of
a large audience. The software allows the speaker to move this small video
window to a particular area of the web page and have it move to over that
same part of the web page of everyone in the audience. It is a little bit
like a video cursor.
3)
Real Person, Virtual Background
This
software connects the actual camera in the studio to the virtual camera
in the 3D environment. This allows cromakeyed in backgrounds to move realistically
as the camera pans in front of them. As the camera pans right to follow
the character, the background pans left.
4)
Real Head Virtual Body
This
software streams video of person in the studio into a virtual world display
on the audiences machine. The video is typically texture mapped on to the
head of a character in the virutual world. Movements of the person's head
in the studio are tracked using a combination camera/orientaion sensor bicycle
helmet and are passed over the network to control the movements of the character
in the virtual world. A 3D chat interface was also part of this project.
