The technology will be tested with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance Center, with performances streamed live and on-demand for educational purposes and to allow engineers to refine the PCV technology. The researchers believe this project could pave the way for advanced VR and mixed reality streaming content in various sectors including education, business, healthcare, and entertainment.
Key takeaways:
- NYU is launching a project, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, to develop immersive 3D video for dance education using Point-Cloud Video (PCV) technology.
- PCV technology, which creates moving scenes from data points in a 3D space, has been under development for a decade but has been too data-intensive for practical use.
- The researchers aim to make PCV viable for streaming by reducing bandwidth consumption and delivery latency, and increasing power consumption efficiency.
- The technology will be tested with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance Center, with the aim of creating educational content for aspiring dancers and facilitating immersive augmented, virtual and mixed reality experiences.