Here we share a video that deals with the new field of collaborative tele-immersion.  With this new technology, participants are able to move into the same space and collaborate with each other in real time - in 3D.  The video can be found here:



In the video, you can see designers go back and forth with each other in the 3D space.  The later parts of the video are especially interesting, when the participants start manipulating actual objects in the shared 3D space - if you can get passed the flickering refresh rates in the video.

The designers immediately invoke the idea of Second Life to help new uses make sense of whats going on in the demo.  Basically, users each install a client app that syncs with a server that keeps everyone on the same page.  Everything is rebroadcast from the server drawn together into the 3D space.  The result is a hologram collaboration system that maintains proper eye contact.

The project is joint effort between UC Berkeley's CITRUS group and UC Davis' Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization that combines many experimental technologies developed at the different academic institutions.