2008 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 353-362
This paper reports a novel camera system that captures immersive 3D motion pictures in real time for a telexistence environment. The system is composed of eight pairs of cameras placed densely to cover all field of view, in order to reconstruct stereoscopic visual field for observers, taking the physical constraints of human vision system into account. The developed system fully satisfied the requirements to archive visual telexistence: the system can present panoramic and stereoscopic motion images interactivity. We showed an application in which the proposed image-capture system was applied to the immersive visual display TWISTER and an experiment of visual telexistence was put into practice.
