Today, in spite of advanced video conferencing, shared virtual environments, and gaming environments such as Second Life, it is still simply much more efficient to physically travel to remote location for business, scientific or family meetings—even if at a huge environmental, energetic and opportunity cost.
The science and technology developed in BEAMING will for the first time give people a real sense of physically being in a remote location with other people, and vice versa—without actually travelling.
BEAMING is a four year FP7 EU collaborative project which started on Jan 1st 2010.
BEAMING raises a number of ethical and legal issues that are familiar from existing virtual reality and telecommunications technologies.It also raises several novel issues.
You can read more here.
BEAMING put to the test by the BBC
Dr Mavi Sanchez-Vives Beams from Barcelona to London to be interviewed by the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-18017745
In a related piece about "Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime"
BEAMING presented as part of the Bacrelona Neuroscience "Secrets of the Brain" series.
120 members of the public turned out to hear researchers from UBs EventLab present "Tele-transporting yourself is now possible" as part of Barcelona's year of Neuroscience. www.bcn.cat/neurociencia/index_en.html
BEAMING YouTube channel launched!
The beamingavatar will be adding video from our research as work progresses during the next 3 years.
The channel can be accessed directly from the home page.
BEAMING 2011 gathered 40 researchers working on themes related to advanced telepresence and embodiment
Our first workshop was very succesful with a good cross section of researchers from this multi-disiplinary field. It's a challenging topic but the workshop concluded on a very optimistic note. You can download the abstracts from the BEAMING 2011 workshop tab above.
Some of the spakers will be invited to submit a paper to the MIT journal Presence later this year.
First BEAMING workshop to be held in Barcelona on June 14th 2011
Our first workshop will be held at the Cosmo Caixa science museum in Barcelona on June 14th 2011.
This workshop shall be held in conjunction with the Future BNCI 1-day workshop at the same venue on June 15th.
See: future-bnci.org/ for more information on this FP7 Coordination Action for Brain Computer Interfaces.
