Holographic communications: About HoloMIT prototype
The prototype called Holomit is an advance for a visual interaction between people in the metaverse. HoloMIT consists of an affordable volumetric capture system (in 3D) that allows captured users to be transferred to a metaverse and interact with each other with natural movements in real-time. We also implemented some processing and network efficiency features.
HoloMIT is a solution developed by i2CAT that uses Point Clouds instead of meshes as representation format, thus unleashing greater detail potential for both capturing and viewing real objects. While this format presents bigger management complexity in terms of computation and data volume, it also opens new horizons for innovation. Moreover, 3D holoconference implies additional requirements in terms of bandwidth and latency. By combining various components for capture, compression, multi-conferencing, and 3D rendering, i2CAT has managed to reduce the computing, data load, bandwidth, and cost needs of an end-to-end solution.
HoloMIT is one of the very first end-to-end Holoportation platforms supporting use cases as:
El Mobile World Congress 2021 termina con pocas novedades pero con propuestas AR/VR
01/07/2021 La celebración en Barcelona del Mobile World Congress 2021 llega a su fin en una edición protagonizada más por las ausencias de grandes compañías que por anuncios de nuevos dispositivos o tecnologías. EEl centro de investigación i2CAT ha presentado en el MWC 2021 estos días una tecnología que permitirá realizar conferencias usando hologramas y visores AR/VR. Este sistema se llama Holomit y usa vídeos volumétricos para proyectar en tiempo real a diferentes personas, con el objetivo de hacer evolucionar las videollamadas a holoconferencias.