Challenges for real time long distance holoportation to enable human bond communication

Abstract

Nowadays, the way people see the world and interact between each other is changing; new technologies are paving the way of innovative solutions for communication between humans. The recent research work on relevant topics and the rapid development of powerful hardware and software implementations allow for building of new communications pathways for lifelike interaction between people in different locations called human bond communication. One very new technology may offer the practical application of human bond communication is holoportation, but it also presents a lot of challenges in terms of digital data gathering and transmission. By combining appropriate technics, we propose an approach for holoportation combined with haptic technology between same controlled environments. We present a conceptual model of holoportation architecture for real time communication based on highly accurate 3D modelling of the human face and body, recognition and prediction of human actions and facial expressions to achieve realistic communications. Designed this way the proposed conceptual model of the holoportation system addresses the challenges from the information transmission aspect where real time constraints and narrowband channels are imposed, while big amounts of data, such as 3D body models of humans need to be transmitted.