Microsoft Research’s VROOM combines life-sized AR avatars with robots

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Members of Microsoft Research today introduced Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings (VROOM), a way to combine AR and VR and bring life-sized avatars into the workplace via telepresence robots. Makers of VROOM detailed the system in a recently released paper and said it’s meant to make both the person working remotely in VR and the person who is working in the office and wearing a HoloLens AR headset feel like they’re in the same place.  » ….