Category: VideoConferencing

  • 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…

  • Google+ Hangout Video Conferencing Meeting, Part 1

    Before any good, errrr…..AWESOME meeting, there is preparation.   That is especially the case with a video conference.  The initiators of the video conference must work diligently to make sure the meeting goes off without a hitch. No joking around….deadly serious business.  If you want to get involved in video conferencing and put on an…

  • Perfect Video Conferencing Demos LifeSize

    I posted a comment on Linkedin the other day telling the world how much I’d love to see the ClearSea from Lifesize work on the iPad2.  But…with no iPad2 and starving blogger….I needed help. Well, that afternoon Michael Granados (email, mgranados@perfectvc.com) from Perfect Video Conferencing wrote me an email that he could bring some LifeSize stuff…

  • Google+ Hangout

    This Thursday!!!!  A Google+ Hangout for video conferencing types like you! Join the conversation….. – Join David Maldow, Telepresence Options, and myself for a Google+ Hangout this Thursday!  Go here to see David’s article on Telepresence Options, or continue reading my copied version below.  Add me to your circles…….if you dare!  🙂 – Telepresence Options has…

  • Polycom RealPresence Mobile

    I missed this by a few days…oh well, been busy with ForCarol.com. On October 11, 2011 Polycom announced the availability of “RealPresence” on Apple iPad2, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung GALAXY Tab, with the promise of more tablet support to follow.  It needs a CMA Gatekeeper (ah, gatekeepers live! 🙂 at your location…here is a cool…

  • Vidyo Video Conferencing App for iPad2 & iPhone

    This press release came in via email a couple of days ago.  Very cool. —  HACKENSACK, NJ – October 6, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ for iOS 4.x on iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch on the Apple App Store. The VidyoMobile application allows Vidyo’s enterprise customers to seamlessly offer mobile workers the ability to participate…

  • 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…

  • Radvision Scopia Mobile Video Conferencing

    How in the world did this escape me?  Here is some info on the Radvision Scopia Mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Those of you who know me, know that my dealings with Radvision go W-A-Y back .  As we were developing the ESnet H.323 architecture (starting in 1999), Radvision was there with us.  Eventually,…

  • Starleaf Personal Telepresence Demo

    Starleaf Personal Telepresence Demo

    Update:  Old (well not old…longtime) friend, David Maldow, wrote a more detailed article on Starleaf here. Google+ friend CZoli posted a link to this video demo of Starleaf’s Personal Telepresence application (damn, we were FAR ahead of the time…see the ORIGINAL Personal Telepresence here). The person running this demo is old friend Will McDonald.  I…

  • 8×8 Video Conferencing in the Cloud

    8×8 Video Conferencing in the Cloud

    Update September 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. I still have the 8×8 units in the garage. 🙂 Surfing the Internet for some information on Polycom (my next blog entry on Products and Services) I ran across the mention of 8×8 cloud based video conferencing. Knowing 8×8 from WAY back (see the picture above…