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About this paper
Pratham Darrpan Mehta, Rahul Ozhur Narayanan, Vidhi Kulkarni, Timothy Slesnick, Fawwaz Shaw, Duen Horng Chau
HYBRIDCOLLAB from Georgia Institute of Technology and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta introduces a mobile augmented reality system that integrates both in-person and remote collaborators for cardiovascular surgical planning. The system provides real-time, low-latency interaction with 3D heart models, enabling shared annotations and omnidirectional slicing for up to 16 users.
Key insights
- Leveraging and repurposing existing robust gaming and connectivity frameworks (GameKit, Multipeer Connectivity, SharePlay) can effectively build complex hybrid collaboration systems without custom server infrastructure.
- Optimized data encoding is crucial for achieving low-latency, real-time synchronization of interactive 3D models across varied network conditions (local and wide-area).
- Designing intuitive spatial referencing tools like virtual annotations and dynamic pointing is essential for bridging communication gaps in physically distributed AR collaboration.
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