Virtual Roommates in multiple shared spaces

Abstract

Augmented Reality applications have already become a part of everyday life, bringing virtual 3D objects into real life scenes. In this paper, we introduce “Virtual Roommates”, a system that employs AR techniques to share people's presence, projected from remote locations. Virtual Roommates is a feature-based mapping between loosely linked spaces. It allows to overlay multiple physical and virtual scenes and populate them with physical or virtual characters. As the name implies, the Virtual Roommates concept provides continuous ambient presence for multiple disparate groups, similar to people sharing living conditions, but without the boundaries of real space.