We continue to expand the Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog, the most comprehensive overview of visual collaboration solutions intelligently explained and organized on the Internet.


This month we have added 8 new entries to the catalog, including:

• ClearOne Chat USB Headsets
• ClearOne Chat 150 USB Speakerphones
  
• DVE Telepresence Podium
• DVE Telepresence Stage
• Highly Immersive Telepresence - Research Brief
  
• VidyoPanorama
• VidyoDesktop
• VidyoMobile

Check back often for the coolest new solutions in telepresence, videoconferencing, and visual collaboration including managed service and inter-networking solutions!

New Telepresence and Visual Collaboration Solutions in the Catalog This Month: 

ClearOne's Chat USB headsets for unified communications combine comfort, durability and the legacy audio quality you expect from ClearOne. All ClearOne USB  headsets are compatible with Microsoft Lync and feature single or dual earpieces and an in-line controller for hang-up and answer and the ability to adjust volume and mute.

The ClearOne Chat 150 USB Speakerphones connect to laptops and PCs for rich, full-duplex audio communications, and can be used with videoconferencing, VoIP softphones including Skype and Microsoft Lync, web collaboration applications, instant messaging, and any other application requiring two-way audio. Featuring ClearOne's trademark audio processing performance, CHAT 150 delivers unmatched full-duplex capability for crystal-clear communications. It includes three built-in microphones for full 360-degree pickup.

The DVE Telepresence Podium creates the appearance that a person is standing at a podium even though they may be thousands of miles away. The system requires no special environmental changes and works under normal room lighting conditions. At the distant site the speaker uses a DVE eye contact solution and appears virtually with eye contact to the entire audience or classroom. No longer is a person's image relegated to the bounds of the borders of a rectangular screen.


The DVE Telepresence Stage is a portable, volumetric 3D display for presenting realistic life-size people that appear in the physical space of the room. It is ideal for events and training applications. The system is easily set-up and it can be rolled off stage in minutes. The entire system ingeniously overcomes the problems with older stage illusions that take days to set-up and require giant truss systems and screens that consume the entire stage.

Human Productivity Lab Research Brief - Highly Immersive Telepresence: The Keys to Immersion - This new Research Brief by Human Productivity Lab President Howard Lichtman examines what makes telepresence environments "highly immersive" and gives a sneak peak at the first new highly immersive telepresence environment to come to market in years: SurroundPresence.  The new environment features a new patent pending optics and image processing system called Equal-i that brings remote participants "up close and personal".  The Research Brief was sponsored by Array Telepresence.

VidyoPanorama is the industry's first affordable telepresence solution, delivering truly immersive video conferencing on up to 20 screens of 1080p at 60fps resolution at 10 percent the cost of current telepresence products.  It redefines the traditional telepresence paradigm, ushering in a new era of universal video communications that is also affordable.  Companies can now empower their employees to work from anywhere there is an Internet connection and promote a higher level of collaboration with high quality video conferencing using mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, Android), PCs (Win, Mac, Linux), room systems and immersive telepresence rooms.


VidyoDesktop brings unprecedented telepresence-quality video conferencing to a company's most commonly used business tool - personal computers. The VidyoDesktop software client delivers low latency HD-quality video for natural communications, and single-click simplicity with an intuitive graphical user interface or mouse control. Vidyo puts the productivity power of video conferencing into the hands of users.