Our Challenge

GT Aware Home Research Center• A true home lab, built as two separate homes within a house• A place for evaluating home-based research prototypes• A Living Lab between the laboratory and the field trial

Difficult to show off• 10+ years of research content to highlight• Often in transition• Located in a residential area, just off campus• Limited parking and too far to walk quickly• Demos for visitors are a challenge

Video Conferencing Is Still Lame!

Too many limitations • Flat, 2D experience• No way for the viewer to control what they are seeing• Still not conducive to casual interaction

Want a more personal, interactive experience• Ability to “look around” the room• Easy access to related content• Collaborative control

Magic Window Highlights

Head tracking, gesture interface• Allows natural body movement to control what the user sees• Head tracking to adjust focus and field of view• Hand gestures for navigating related content

Rich video • Panoramic image that supports movement through the space• Augmentations to enhance the information conveyed

Asynchronous access to Rich Interactive Media • Browse graphs and images• Watch videos, including steerable panoramas• Interact with 3D models

Magic Window Technologies

Affordable, standards-based components• 2K HD Pointgrey camera with Fujinon Fisheye lens• Kinect for gesture interface• HTML5 Web-based platform, WebRTC streaming• WebGL for de-warping and augmentation

Software Defined Networking• Network APIs exposed to the application• Used to control network operations and dynamic content

enhancements and optimizations• FloodLight controller, NEC and HP OpenFlow switches

Georgia Tech Installation

GENI Demonstration

Benefits of GENI

Magic Window Challenges• High bandwidth video – 2K HD today, 4K planned• Client cannot do all of the augmentation processing• Need to push processing into the network, close to the data

GENI Features Leveraged• Slice-able network and service allocation• Experiment with processing “in the core”

Ongoing Experiments and Extensions• Multi-stream, multi-source content• Video analytics• Move control farther upstream

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Magic Window Demo Team

GT• Brian Davidson, Saurabh Sabnis, Jeff Wilson• Lan Wang, Haozhe Li, Chris Hoffecker• Maribeth Gandy Coleman, Bobby Strickland• Siva Jayaraman, Matt Sanders, Russ Clark

GPO• Niky Riga and Tim Upthegrove