Video Conferencing and What it has to Offer

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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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.

There are two ways to outsource video conferencing. One would be using a third party as an inside service provider with the use of your own equipment while the other way is to work with an outside service provider that hosts the conference call from an external network.

For both means there are advantages and disadvantages. Lets us take a look at the first way to outsource a video conference.

The advantages of using a third party as an inside service provider is the assurance of encountering less technical problems. Most big companies have their own set of technicians that keep an eye on the video conferencing. However, not even the most skilled of workers can beat a well trained professional group so they hire such people to operate the equipment needed and avoid technical hassles. Also, the costs for using a third party as an inside service provider tends to be more constant in terms of billing and produces less surprise charges.

The disadvantage, though, is that it may take longer time for a big company to set up its video conferencing. Since companies would hire outside staff to oversee the video conferencing especially when it is done in conference rooms and/or big offices, it may take some time for the setup to be finished. This is because though trained professionals are hired for the job, they still need to familiarize themselves with the equipment.

As for working with an outside service provider, the main advantage is that a company can rent and use a maintained facility that is already equipped and ready to go. Additional materials that will be needed for the video conferencing will take just a little time to add.

Its disadvantages, however, would be the inconvenience of having to relocate to the place where the equipment is already set up.

Video conferencing is not only used for businesses. It may also be used for personal and other purposes like education, security surveillance and emergency response. But if you wish to use if for personal use you may need to purchase additional hardware and software to equip your computer and enable it for video conferencing.

Video conferencing is such a big convenience that anyone, regardless of age, may benefit from. You dont even have to be computer savvy to enjoy video conferencing.

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