CRI: II-NEW: HoloCamera: An Immersive Gigapixel Cyberinstrument for Creating Precision Virtual Environments

标题：全息摄像机：用于创建精确虚拟环境的沉浸式十亿像素网络仪器虚拟世界需要高质量的真实感才能有效使用。全息照相机将满足这些需求。使用几个摄像头和一个计算机集群，它将直接创建动态的虚拟世界。用户将能够自由移动和观察这些虚拟世界，就好像他们真的在那里一样。全息相机将推进光场捕获和渲染、高性能计算和嵌入式信号处理方面的最新技术。该设施将帮助医学教育和培训，机器人的互动模仿学习，以及捕捉母语使用者流利的手语使用。虚拟和增强现实为教育学生提供了令人兴奋的方式，特别是那些来自科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的群体的学生。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Title: HoloCamera: An Immersive Gigapixel Cyberinstrument for Creating Precision Virtual Environments Virtual worlds need high-quality realism for effective use. The HoloCamera will meet these needs. Using several cameras and a computer cluster it will directly create dynamic virtual worlds. Users will be able to freely move about and observe these virtual worlds as if they were actually present there.The HoloCamera will advance the state of the art in light field capture and rendering, high-performance computing, and embedded signal processing. The facility will aid medical education and training, interactive imitation learning for robots, and capturing fluent sign-language use in native signers. Virtual and augmented reality offer exciting ways to educate students, particularly those from underrepresented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.