INTERVIEW:
Question 1
Can you explain what MPI video is?
Answer
MPI video stands for multiple perspective interactive video, where in a video you
can see things from the position that you want to see them. In this mode of video, in
place of seeing from one camera angle, you can decide from where you want to see what is
happening there.
Question 2
What are the possible applications of this kind of video?
Answer
We think that it will applied in many different forms. Sports events or news events will
be broadcast using this medium. You can design also movies that will be like this. You can
visit any place, any meeting using MPI video approach. For television possibly the biggest
application will be in sports, where people will be able to see a sport event from
wherever they want to see rather than from where somebody else wants them to see. This is
still in research. I think it will take about two to three years before it becomes
available to normal television or movies.
Question 3
What will be the consequence of avatars?
Answer
Avatars will be used in a different forms. You can use them for chat rooms
where people will be video conferencing or tele-conferencing. There, in place of using
artificial avatars, people can use their own faces, and they can be walking around and
meeting other people.
Question 4
Do you think that people have lost their identity in the virtual communities?
Answer
That is right. I feel that people are losing their identity and that’s why they are
going to avatars. Using our technology, they will maintain their identity that they
themselves will be representing in the community They will be meeting other people not
through avatars but through themselves.
Question 5
Can you explain the differences between video conferences and tele-presence, and why
tele-presence may become more useful?
Answer
In the current form of video conferencing, the camera is always focused on the speakers.
You are supposed to see what the camera is showing you. In the tele-presence mode, you
will be able to see what you want to see. So, for example when I am speaking, if you want
to see how other people in the room are reacting to this, you will be able to see this. If
you want to see what the person sitting next to you is doing, you will be able to see
that. So you will be able to see whatever you want to see.
You will become your own filmmaker. You can see things from the angle and from the view
that you want to see, and that is the biggest advantage of this.. It will not be in the
form that somebody else is showing you. If you want to see it from somebody else’s
angle, you can always have that. That is the default mode, and that is what I want to see.
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