4D Teleport is a Delaware S-corporation with offices in the University of Illinois incubator. The company leverages proprietary technology developed by one of the company's founders, Computer Science Professor Klara Nahrstedt. The company's vision is to become a leader in providing networking solutions for complex time-sensitive multimedia interactive systems. In the near term, the mission is to develop a software platform for distributed real-time 3D teleimmersive systems that will empower individuals to move from being largely limited to passively consume video content to empowering them to be able to use information-rich 3D video and other media streams to interact and communicate with each other. The firm is focused on developing such a value-added platform for 3D The platform will be made available to gamers to download from the company's web portal and will be licensed to game developers for game development.
