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Personal Telepresence – The Original
With all the hoopla about “Personal Telepresence”, I dug up this 1994 video segment showing our “Personal Telepresence” concept of 1992 (see this link for the original abstract (or this newer link). This video is using the CLI Cameo which was the very first desktop videoconferencing system….enjoy. By the way, we are the ones who…
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Personal Telepresence
Update: See this video of our Personal Telepresence concept of 16 years ago… End Update How interesting is this news from Cisco? Very. If you want to see my 14 year old definition (actually it is 16 years old, and I believe I may be the first person to “coin” this term) of Personal Telepresence……see…
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LifeSize H.323 HD Videoconferencing System Demo
Times have changed. Just a few years ago, TelBitConsulting was pushing the state-of-the art (and enduring the criticisms of those with limited vision) of IP videoconferencing from a trade show (TeleCon). This video (8 minutes long) shows an interview between Matt Hamblen at ComputerWorld and Craig Malloy CEO of LifeSize. (The complete article is here.)…
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Polycom PVX Update
I had been hearing news (rumors) of the demise of the Polycom PVX H.323 desktop videoconferencing application. And I was disappointed (see my review of the PVX here). I finally took the time to talk to someone from Polycom, Terri Gott, Senior Systems Engineer at Polycom and in the following email exchange learned some…
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Tandberg Experia Telepresence
OK, this was an interesting day. I took a trip to Pleasanton, CA (after all the traffic was gone) and met with an old friend, Mark. He showed me Tandberg’s “Experia” Telepresence videoconferencing system. Now….you may know my feelings about Telepresence, and you may be surprised to read this about Experia: Wow! As you can…
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Review of Mirial Softphone
History….ahhh, the memories of a bygone era. 🙂 ++++++++ Rating: 4 WaterTowers Mirial Softphone came to my attention a little over a month ago. At that time, I grabbed a 1 month free demo license and ran it through some initial tests. I encountered some system glitches with that version. These problems did not cause…
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Telepresence
There is a lot of talk and hoopla about “telepresence”. To most, the current definition of telepresence has evolved to mean: A very expensive room-based super-high-quality videoconferencing capability. And you need to buy two. Many years ago (starting in 1992) we developed a concept called “Personal Telepresence” . This was based on your personal…
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Future of Videoconferencing
The future of videoconferencing will rest with the masses. Grandma and Grandpa will be able to see their grandkids grow up, families will be able to virtually be with each other whenever they want, people will be telecommuting (videocommuting) from anywhere, and meetings will be held via video just like they are now by telephone.…
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Vidyo
A few days ago, Vidyo, a new company in the videoconferencing / collaboration “space” officially emerged from their shell. The crux of what they have done is to allow, using a new standard video compression algorithm, high definition videoconferencing and standard definition videoconferencing (see my Polycom PVX blog entry for example) to work together over…
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WebEx Meeting Center
4 WaterTowers OK, now you are working at home, saving the environment, and reducing traffic. Now what? You still need to stay in contact with your colleagues at work or around the world. You need to host a meeting, and/or manage and coordinate an online conference or seminar. What do you do? You…
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