Immersive Telepresence in Remote Education

We present a low-cost telepresence system with application in remote education. It follows an Augmented Distributed Reality approach, where the remote student, wearing a Head Mounted Display, is immersed in a mixed reality scene composed of a real-time 360 video stream of the classroom, a pass-through view of his/her own hands, and additional augmented information obtained via Artificial Intelligence. The system can help students in quarantine or similar situations to improve their learning experience, particularly for hands-on sessions with high interaction between physically present students and their teacher.