  In recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have
steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19
pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has
substantially affected various aspects of our lives, including business,
education, commerce, healthcare, and personal life. This rapid and large-scale
switch from in-person to remote interactions has revealed that our current
technologies lack functionality and are limited in their ability to recreate
interpersonal interactions. To help address these limitations in the future, we
introduce "Telelife," a vision for the near future that depicts the potential
means to improve remote living better aligned with how we interact, live and
work in the physical world. Telelife encompasses novel synergies of
technologies and concepts such as digital twins, virtual prototyping, and
attention and context-aware user interfaces with innovative hardware that can
support ultrarealistic graphics, user state detection, and more. These ideas
will guide the transformation of our daily lives and routines soon, targeting
the year 2035. In addition, we identify opportunities across high-impact
applications in domains related to this vision of Telelife. Along with a recent
survey of relevant fields such as human-computer interaction, pervasive
computing, and virtual reality, the directions outlined in this paper will
guide future research on remote living.
