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Virtual Reality Holograms Could Transform Learning, Arts
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HEADLINE: Virtual Reality Holograms Could Transform Learning, Arts
TEASER: Viewers virtually walking around the action
PUBLISHED: 12/01/2023 at 8:30am
BYLINE: Julie Taboh
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: College Park, Maryland
VIDEOGRAPHER: Adam Greenbaum
VIDEO EDITOR: Adam Greenbaum
ASSIGNING EDITOR: Stearns
SCRIPT EDITORS: Stearns, AR
VIDEO SOURCE (S): Original VOA, University of Maryland
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TRT: 3:00
VID APPROVED BY: MAS
TYPE: TVR
EDITOR NOTES: There will also be a LogOn version of this story.))
((INTRO)) [[Developers at the University of Maryland are using a holographic camera to capture people’s movements in three dimensions for what could be high-impact training, education and entertainment. It’s technology with the power to transform how we learn and entertain ourselves. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.]]
((NATS -- Violinist Irina Muresanu playing violin))
((NARRATOR))
Concert violinist Irina ((ee-REE-na)) Muresanu ((more-reh-SHANOH)) may be playing for a non-existent audience…
but not for long.
((NATS -- Violinist Irina Muresanu playing violin))
In this specially outfitted HoloCamera studio at the University of Maryland, hundreds of 3D cameras are capturing her image and movements to create a life-like hologram.
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
Her holographic twin can then be placed virtually into any setting so that someone with a virtual reality headset can feel like they’re watching her live.
((NATS -- Violinist Irina Muresanu playing violin
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
In this prototype, Muresanu ((more-reh-SHANOH)), who is also an associate professor of violin at the university, appears to be performing from a famous concert hall in Romania.
((Irina Muresanu, University of Maryland))
“One of the pieces we recorded was a Romanian piece by Romania's most well-known composer, George Enescu. My wish was for me, or for my hologram, I should say, to be put on the stage of the Romanian Athenaeum.”
((Irina Muresanu, University of Maryland))
“So we hired a team to film the Athenaeum so that when someone would watch this recording of the Romanian piece, they would see me on the stage of the Athenaeum.”
((NATS -- Violinist Irina Muresanu teaching: ‘You see, all of a sudden it feels very differently.”))
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
((NARRATOR))
In addition to teaching in person, Muresanu ((more-reh-SHANOH)) believes HoloCamera technology will one day help her provide better virtual lessons to her students overseas.
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((Irina Muresanu, University of Maryland))
“So having the benefits of 3D technology that would allow me to see my student halfway across the globe, from all sides, and therefore initiate more helpful feedback about what they need to do, and for the student to be able to observe my demonstration and to see how I move both hands, and from different angles, would be absolutely beneficial to the learning process.”
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
((NARRATOR))
The project was developed by Amitabh Varshney and his team at the university’s College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.
((Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland))
“In one of the studies we did here at the University of Maryland, we found that people can retain information much better when they are exposed to these virtual environments where they are experiencing the world with their bodies.”
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
“So we believe that virtual and augmented reality experiences, which are immersive in nature, help us re-create the world
((end courtesy))
in a much more precise, accurate way than we would ever with just a desktop monitor with a keyboard and a mouse.”
((NARRATOR))
Using advanced holographic imagery to allow viewers to virtually walk around the action has applications well beyond music and education.
((Courtesy: University of Maryland))
The HoloCamera team is developing a prototype for performing arts that it hopes can be expanded into remotely training health care professionals in intricate medical procedures, including surgeries.
((NATS -- Violinist Irina Muresanu playing violin))
((Julie Taboh, VOA News, College Park, Maryland))
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