[hackerspaces] Webcam Telepresence Wall

[hellekin =8)]

On Thu 2009-10-08 at 04:17:15 -0400, tetsu yatsu wrote:
> I've always wanted to do this, since day 1 of planning our hackerspace.
> 
> Set up a projector on a wall and point a webcam back from the wall being
> projected on, and have someone from another do the same, and effectively
> extend our space into another city/state/country. Like how sleazy real
> estate people cover entire rooms with mirrors to make them look bigger, only
> with streaming internet video!
> 
> We could do it easily/quickly with Skype, maybe better quality later with
> mplayer or some set of scripts.
> 
> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Telepresence_Walls
> 
> Any takers!?  I'm thinking tomorrow, or this weekend.
>
*** Sounds like a child of HOLE-IN-SPACE, by Kit Galloway & Sherrie
Rabinowitz, 1980. http://www.ecafe.com/getty/HIS/index.html

I like it =8)

==
hk

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