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Category: Telepresence

  • Beam: Robotic Video Conferencing

    Beam: Robotic Video Conferencing

    I started seeing robotic video conferencing devices appear around 2010. I wrote a few blogs on the HeadThere Giraffe, AnyBots, and VGo  (see my blog entries here) and even watched an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” which featured Sheldon using a “nice virtual presence device” to meet the Woz. Despite the fast early start for…

  • Telepresence vs VideoConferencing

    Telepresence vs VideoConferencing

    I suspect it is about time I chimed in on this definition thing on this blog. I had an unfortunate “job” interview yesterday in 2012 (now this is 2020 and we are home riding out the coronavirus) and it got me to re-evaluating a lot of things. The “job” was to install “telepresence”.  After a…

  • Video Conferencing As We Know It Is Changing: Ready or Not

    Video Conferencing As We Know It Is Changing: Ready or Not

    I have been working in the video conferencing industry since hmmmm, about 1988 and have  been blogging about it since 2006, or so.  Yikes!  So many products, so many conferences, so many changes, so much fun…. Anyway, so much for nostalgia….lets roll with the FUTURE…. The title of this blog entry kinda says it all:…

  • Google+ Hangout Video Conferencing Meeting, Part 2

    Updated: 3/31/2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Stay Safe! Google+ Hangout is the PERFECT way for ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE  to video conference.  It is FREE, you can meet with up to 10 friends, and the quality is awesome (for a free service).  The technology behind this is from Vidyo. I will shut-up and let the video…

  • DVE Telepresence

    Looking at LinkedIn the other day, I ran across a familiar name (I must be getting old, but, I think I remember them from like 1999, 2000?), DVE Telepresence,  and decided to take a peek at the videos. NOW…you know me….I think driving to a room to sit in a meeting with a bunch of…