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Advances in immersive communication: (1) Telephone, (2) Television, (3) Teleportation

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The last great advances in immersive communication were the invention of the telephone over 137 years ago and the invention of the video telephone (né television) over 86 years ago. However, a perfect storm is brewing for the next advance in immersive communication, thanks to the convergence of massive amounts of computation, bandwidth, resolution, new sensors, and new displays. It could well be the Multimedia community that turns this brew into the next great advance in immersive communication, something akin to teleportation.

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            cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
            ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 9, Issue 1s
            Special Sections on the 20th Anniversary of ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2012
            October 2013
            218 pages
            ISSN:1551-6857
            EISSN:1551-6865
            DOI:10.1145/2523001
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            • Published: 17 October 2013
            • Received: 1 May 2013
            • Accepted: 1 May 2013
            Published in tomm Volume 9, Issue 1s

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