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Video Conferencing and What it has to Offer
Video conferencing is a new and better way to gather people for a meeting or talk while making sure all that is discussed would be readily understood. Better than other forms of communication, video conferencing offers audio-visual connection with the other attendees.
Video Conferencing Market to Reach $11.9 Billion by 2010, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Video conferencing hitherto associated with stuttering, grainy, bandwidth-eating images over slow data networks, has undergone dramatic changes. Greater affordability, accessibility and availability, has allowed the technology to break its niche status and enter the mainstream market. Driven by favorable trends, the market is projected to reach a value of US$11.9 billion by 2010.
HP Introduces New Halo Telepresence Product, Marquee Customer Wins
HP today introduced its latest telepresence product, the HP Halo Collaboration Center, which delivers an immersive collaboration experience for executives or small groups.
The History of Video Conferencing – Moving Ahead at the Speed of Video
No new technology develops smoothly, and video conferencing had more than its
share of bumps along the way before becoming the widely used communications
staple it is today. The history of video conferencing in its earliest form goes
back to the 1960's, when AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the World's Fair in
New York.
RadiSys Introduces Continuous Presence Video Conferencing Capabilities for Convedia Media Server Family : Added Features Equip RadiSys Application D
RadiSys® Corporation (NASDAQ:RSYS), the leading independent provider of open, standards-based media server platforms and advanced embedded solutions, today announced new video conferencing enhancements to its market-leading Convedia® media server family. The RadiSys Convedia media server?s new ?continuous presence? (CP) video conferencing mode supports multiple real-time video streams within a unified multi-pane display to deliver an ?immersive? video experience for desktop conferencing users. This new capability is available now for the RadiSys CMS-9000 Media Server at no additional charge.
Telepresence Report: Seeing is Believing
Report shows that a better Telepresence experience is more valuable to business users.
HaiVision bridges Telepresence & Video Conferencing With Codian
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the leader in high performance network video technology, today announces interoperability between the HaiVision hai1000 and Codian's HD MCU 4500 Series.
Save Time And Money With Business Video Conferencing
Does your business have employees who must meet face to face, who work at job sites all around the country or the globe? Is paying traveling expenses for your employees really starting to add up? Video conferencing allows your employees to gather together for meetings without the expenses associated with travel and time away from the job site.
Bridging Time, Connecting Lives: History Of Video Conferencing
Once upon a time, video conferencing did not exist. If you want to speak to several people, you'd have to climb up the apex of a hill and loudly invite them to visit your cornfield. While therapeutic and easy, shouting can, nevertheless, be exhausting. Soon, people grew tired of shouting, so they tried communicating by telegraph. However, talking by clicking sounds was not very user-friendly. For a while,the telephone seemed the best solution. The invention of the television, however, opened the doors to better and even more dramatic means for communication. It was not long before video conferencing was developed, and in time, it became the most virtual form of person-to-person communication. Ironically, the history of video conferencing di...
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Telepresence Report: Seeing is Believing
  
 
What’s the difference between Video Conferencing and Telepresence?
Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.
Why Telepresence now?
Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.
Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?
There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…
What are “real” savings of Telepresence?
Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.
You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!
Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!
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Telepresence Forum
Free user discussion forum for anything & everything telepresence related. Learn about this new state-of-the-art immersive technology, view new product videos, and keep up to date on relevant 24/7 breaking telepresence news on the Telepresence Forum.
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Northborough, MA (PRWEB) August 29, 2007 -- Brockmann & Company, the customer insight research and consulting firm, today released findings from its latest independent self-funded report "Telepresence: Seeing is Believing." Telepresence is a particularly high bandwidth and systems-intensive implementation of high definition room-based video conferencing products and services.
According to Peter Brockmann, president of Brockmann & Company, "Telepresence users are 'eco-friendly'. They are willing to pay 55% more to avoid driving 40 miles than the desktop video conferencing users discussed in our last report, 'The Desktop Video Conferencing Experience'. For Telepresence users system reliability, ease of operation and manageability are the three most important decision criteria. Having done business with the Telepresence vendor in the past was a surprisingly low ranking."
Brockmann added, "Travel is the preferred alternative to telepresence for telepresence users, while for desktop video conferencing users the alternative was audio conference calls."
Vendors mentioned in this report include Cisco, Digital Video Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, LifeSize, Nortel, Polycom, Radvision, Tandberg and Telanetix.
The report is based on the online responses of 360 business users of conferencing services from around the world.
Brockmann & Company is a consulting & advisory firm serving high tech equipment, application vendors and service providers in the Telepresence, Unified Communications and Email Integrity segments. Clients accelerate growth through customer research & thought leadership. Learn more at http://www.brockmann.com
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