Telelife: The Future of Remote Living
In recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has substantially affected almost all aspects of our lives, including business, e...
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| author | Jason Orlosky Jason Orlosky Misha Sra Kenan Bektaş Huaishu Peng Jeeeun Kim Nataliya Kos’myna Tobias Höllerer Anthony Steed Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Kaan Akşit |
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| description | In recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has substantially affected almost all aspects of our lives, including business, education, commerce, healthcare, and personal life. This rapid and large-scale switch from in-person to remote interactions has exacerbated the fact that our current technologies lack functionality and are limited in their ability to recreate interpersonal interactions. To help address these limitations in the future, we introduce “Telelife,” a vision for the near and far future that depicts the potential means to improve remote living and better align it with how we interact, live and work in the physical world. Telelife encompasses novel synergies of technologies and concepts such as digital twins, virtual/physical rapid prototyping, and attention and context-aware user interfaces with innovative hardware that can support ultrarealistic graphics and haptic feedback, user state detection, and more. These ideas will guide the transformation of our daily lives and routines soon, targeting the year 2035. In addition, we identify opportunities across high-impact applications in domains related to this vision of Telelife. Along with a recent survey of relevant fields such as human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, and virtual reality, we provide a meta-synthesis in this paper that will guide future research on remote living. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6b6ef21d4968474087130690457082a72022-12-21T23:09:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Virtual Reality2673-41922021-11-01210.3389/frvir.2021.763340763340Telelife: The Future of Remote LivingJason Orlosky0Jason Orlosky1Misha Sra2Kenan Bektaş3Huaishu Peng4Jeeeun Kim5Nataliya Kos’myna6Tobias Höllerer7Anthony Steed8Kiyoshi Kiyokawa9Kaan Akşit10Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanSchool of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United StatesComputer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesInstitute of Computer Science, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, SwitzerlandComputer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United StatesComputer Science Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesComputer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United StatesComputer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesComputer Science Department, University College London, London, United KingdomDivision of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JapanComputer Science Department, University College London, London, United KingdomIn recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has substantially affected almost all aspects of our lives, including business, education, commerce, healthcare, and personal life. This rapid and large-scale switch from in-person to remote interactions has exacerbated the fact that our current technologies lack functionality and are limited in their ability to recreate interpersonal interactions. To help address these limitations in the future, we introduce “Telelife,” a vision for the near and far future that depicts the potential means to improve remote living and better align it with how we interact, live and work in the physical world. Telelife encompasses novel synergies of technologies and concepts such as digital twins, virtual/physical rapid prototyping, and attention and context-aware user interfaces with innovative hardware that can support ultrarealistic graphics and haptic feedback, user state detection, and more. These ideas will guide the transformation of our daily lives and routines soon, targeting the year 2035. In addition, we identify opportunities across high-impact applications in domains related to this vision of Telelife. Along with a recent survey of relevant fields such as human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, and virtual reality, we provide a meta-synthesis in this paper that will guide future research on remote living.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2021.763340/fullvirtual realityaugmented realitytelelifetelepresencehuman computer interaction |
| spellingShingle | Jason Orlosky Jason Orlosky Misha Sra Kenan Bektaş Huaishu Peng Jeeeun Kim Nataliya Kos’myna Tobias Höllerer Anthony Steed Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Kaan Akşit Telelife: The Future of Remote Living Frontiers in Virtual Reality virtual reality augmented reality telelife telepresence human computer interaction |
| title | Telelife: The Future of Remote Living |
| title_full | Telelife: The Future of Remote Living |
| title_fullStr | Telelife: The Future of Remote Living |
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| title_short | Telelife: The Future of Remote Living |
| title_sort | telelife the future of remote living |
| topic | virtual reality augmented reality telelife telepresence human computer interaction |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2021.763340/full |
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