Abstract

This talk presents the distributed immersive performance (DIP) technologies developed at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California, and the DIP experiments designed to assess the quality of human interaction in these remote environments. The talk represents a summary of the enabling technologies for, and an amalgamation and interpretation of findings from, our DIP experiments over the past two years. Some of the findings have been appeared in conference proceedings. The enabling technologies include low latency audio and high definition video transmission techniques that conceal packet loss and ensure smooth playback, real time streaming and archival of multiple data streams in an Internet networking environment, and 10.2-channel immersive audio for realistic reproduction of sound. The talk will highlight our results from a series of collaborative performance experiments with the Tosheff Piano Duo, focusing on auditory delay, and discussions of its effects on musical coordination and interpretation, and the players’ assessments of their abilities to adapt to the conditions. Finally, we present and discuss ongoing work and future plans.

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