Teleshadow (by Yasuda et al, 2007)

The device has the traditional form of a Japanese lamp. The front side is a screen and able to reflect the shadow with the projector and the mirror which are inside of the lamp. The front screen has a touch-panel behind the Japanese paper. Also, it consists of a turntable and a camera in order to take the shadow. To see friend’s shadow, the user connects his/her id card with the turntable and rotates it to select his/her friends. By touching the shadow, user can talk with friends.

Source: Yasuda, S., Hashimoto, S., Koizumi, M., and Okude, N. 2007. Teleshadow: Feeling presence in private spaces. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches Article. 15.

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