Oct 09

[Hands-On] Docomo Hands-Free Videophone for futuristic glasses-type HMD devices

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NTT Docomo has developed the Hands-Free Videophone, which enables video calls without having to hold the camera. This is part of docomo’s research on creating future glasses-type devices.
The Hands-Free Videophone captures the user’s face with three cameras in each of the left and right sides of the frames. The video sent to the other person is created by combining the pictures with a pre-rendered 3D model of the users face.
“Each camera has 720p resolution, and a fish-eye …

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Oct 03

[CEATEC 2012] Docomo demos hands-free video-conferencing prototype and share to the world your digitized avatar.

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Improving something that works just fine is a difficult task and I must say that Docomo did a pretty descent job this year at CEATEC with their new hands-free video-conferencing prototype. The concept is simple, create an digitized avatar of yourself that will not only mimic your facial expression but also reproduce your surrounding environment without the needs for you to face a camera. Simple isn’t it? Well actually not really but Docomo came with something rather interesting in the …

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