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Bringing Down the Conference Walls: Telepresence Q&A with Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom

July 2, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
bob_mccandless_photo.jpgBy Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor

Telepresence is quickly becoming a "must-have" IP technology for companies looking to lower travel costs and improve business operations. Beyond that, participants favor the solution for its ability to create "face-to-face" meetings across the globe, far beyond the confines of a conference room setting.

 
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Polycom Solution Helps Power Regus Telepresence Suite

June 30, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
rpx_200.jpgBy Amy Tierney

The Regus Group, a provider of workplace solutions, has tapped a Pleasanton, Calif.-based company that offers telepresence, video, and voice solutions to equip its first publicly available telepresence suite.

Regus, which recently opened the Regus Telepresence Suite, has equipped the location with Polycom's RealPresence Experience High Definition telepresence system. The effort is part of a contract with Cable&Wireless Worldwide, an international communications company.
 

Airlines adjust as demand slides

June 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
britishairway.jpgBy Jorn Madslien

With industry officials and journalists flocking to Paris for this week's biennial airshow, British Airways flight 314 from Heathrow was overbooked.

Some passengers were told there were no seats available, though with compensation on offer, along with seats on later flights, this is a common practice that leaves many travellers happy, according to BA's duty manager.

Panel on connecting Inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing networks at Telx CBX - NYC, June 25th

June 23, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
telx_CBX.jpg
Telepresence Options Publisher and Human Productivity Lab President Howard S. Lichtman will be moderating a panel on Advanced Enterprise Video at the telx Customer Business Exchange (CBX) in New York City on Thursday, June 25th at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.   Information on the Telx CBX can be found here: http://www.telx.com/?q=media/telx_cbx

The panel will address how carriers and telepresence & videoconferencing managed service providers will be solving the problems of securely connecting disparate enterprise networks together at high speeds and low latencies for effective inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing. 

Panelists Include:

Howard S. Lichtman - Moderator, Publisher, Telepresence Options & President, Human Productivity Lab

John Bartlett, Principal, NetForecast

Chris Carr, Global Director, Masergy

Rose Klimovich, VP of Product, Telx
 
Jason Redisch, Principal Architect, Virtela Communications
 
Monty Richardson, Business Development Specialist, IPV Gateways
 
Marc Trachtenberg, CEO, Teliris

3D Conferencing System Allows for Virtual Light Saber Duels

June 22, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
3d-camera-setup.jpgBy Priya Ganapati

If your Wii boxing buddy or Star Wars light saber duel partner moved to a different town, technology can help bring you together for just one more game. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Intel have created a system that can support collaborative physical activities from different geographical locations.

"We can capture motions of the human body in real time and bring them together on a big screen," says Ahsan Arefin, a doctoral student currently involved with the project.

A Full-Color Screen That Bends

June 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
A new way to mass-produce flexible OLED displays could mean affordable commercial products.

By Prachi Patel

Flexible, full-color video displays could be closer to market because of a new advance by researchers at Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center (FDC) and at Universal Display, in Ewing, NJ. The researchers have made bendy organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays employing processes and tools that are used to make today's flat-panel LCD screens. They demonstrated a new 4.1-inch video-quality display at the 2009 Society for Information Display conference last week.


flex_oled_x220.jpgFlexible video: The electronics behind a new flexible OLED display are made on tools used to manufacture LCD backplanes. The development brings bendable color video displays closer to being commercial products.
Credit: Mark Martinez


The Display That Watches You

June 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
photodetect_x220.jpgResearchers in Germany have created a display that doubles as a camera.

By Kate Greene

For decades, engineers have envisioned wearable displays for pilots, surgeons, and mechanics. But so far, a compact wearable display that's easy to interact with has proved elusive.

Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) have now developed a screen technology that could help make wearable displays more compact and simpler to use. By interlacing photodetector cells--similar to those used to capture light in a camera--with display pixels, the researchers have built a system that can display a moving image while also detecting movement directly in front of it. Tracking a person's eye movements while she looks at the screen could allow for eye-tracking control: instead of using hand controls or another form of input, a user could flip through menu options on a screen by looking at the right part of the screen. The researchers envisage eventually integrating the screen with an augmented-reality system.

AVI-SPL Teams Up with TelePresence Technologies

June 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
avispl.jpgBy Pro AV Staff

AVI-SPL has teamed up with TelePresence Technologies, a provider of 3D telepresence solutions, to advance collaborative systems and solutions, and expand the options available for effective, worldwide communications over an array of markets, according to company officials.

Telstra E&G makes big push into telepresence

May 28, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telstra_logo.pngby Stuart Corner   

Telstra Enterprise and Government gathered about 500 customer representatives at a breakfast briefing in Sydney to promote the benefits of high definition videoconferencing.

The host of the meeting, Telstra's executive director for convergent sales, Paul Geason, told the gathering that Telstra E&G would be making a big push into high definition videoconferencing, generally known as telepresence, in response to market demand "video, video, video is what we are hearing," he said.

For the event Telstra set up a three way telepresence conference using technology from strategic partner Cisco, in what for many of those attending may well have been their first encounter with the technology. The conference linked a Cisco executive in San Jose and one from Telstra's other strategic partner, Microsoft, in North Sydney.

Electrosonic VN-Quantum Connect Brings Big Display Power

May 25, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
electrosonic_160x30px.jpgAt InfoComm, Electrosonic will debut its VN-Quantum Connect, a powerful multi-image display processor for integrating and scaling multiple video and graphic images onto single or multiple displays.

web-electrosonic.jpgThe VN-Quantum Connect supports a wide variety of input and output combinations. Instead of a PC hardware design, it's a dedicated video processor for high reliability and performance. Up to 128 windows can be sized and placed anywhere across multiple displays via the control software.

Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics

May 25, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
When and what to fire will be part of hardware and software 'package'

robot_marrior.jpgLethal military robots are currently deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ground-based robots like QinetiQ's MAARS robot (shown here), are armed with weapons to shoot insurgents, appendages to disarm bombs, and surveillance equipment to search buildings. A Georgia Tech computer science professor is developing a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire.

By Eric Bland

Smart missiles, rolling robots, and flying drones currently controlled by humans, are being used on the battlefield more every day. But what happens when humans are taken out of the loop, and robots are left to make decisions, like who to kill or what to bomb, on their own?

Microsoft Swings at Wii With Videocam

May 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
3DCamera.jpgBy NICK WINGFIELD

Microsoft Corp.
is developing a new videocamera for the Xbox 360 console that will allow players to control games with the movement of their bodies, people familiar with the matter said, an effort to attract the casual players who have fueled Nintendo Co.'s recent success.

The Microsoft device is a twist on Nintendo's blockbuster Wii game console, which allows users to swing a tennis racket or other equipment in games by holding a plastic wand in their hands.

Stretchable Displays

May 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Stretchable_Displays.jpgAn elastic conductor makes possible cheap, conformable displays.

By Prachi Patel

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have moved a step closer to displays and simple computers that you can wear on your sleeve or wrap around your couch. And they have opened up the possibility of printing such devices, which would make them cheap.

Takao Someya, an electrical-engineering professor, and his colleagues make a stretchable display by connecting organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic transistors with a new rubbery conductor. The researchers can spread the display over a curved surface without affecting performance. The display can also be folded in half or crumpled up without incurring any damage.

General Aviation Sounds Mayday as Fat Cats Ditch Their Jets

May 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cessna_Citation.jpgBy Dave Demerjian

The Cessna Citation is the best selling corporate jet in the world, but the company, like others, is feeling the pinch as corporate giants ranging from Bank of America to General Motors ditch their fleets. The trend could undermine the economy and threaten one of the last manufacturing sectors the US still dominates.
Photo: Cessna

Nothing symbolizes corporate excess in this economy like a private jet, and scores of companies are ditching them to bolster their images and hold the bottom line. It's a trend that could hurt the aviation industry, undermining one of the last manufacturing sectors the U.S. still dominates.

A Meeting in New York? Can't We Videoconference?

May 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Teliris_VirtuaLive_Side_Large.jpgBy JOE SHARKEY

I HAD been planning to spend this month in Tucson, where I have been finishing a book on air travel. Then I got a phone call from my publisher in New York asking if I could come to a meeting to discuss the changes that seem to be occurring each day in the travel industry.

The desert weather was magnificent. I had no great desire to get myself onto some airplane and fly across the country.

But I had no choice. And so off I went, with that dreaded connection through the grandly named George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where more often than not I have to run like a boot-camp grunt from one distant terminal to another to get to my connecting flight.

On the Agenda: Modernizing the Meeting

May 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Thumbnail image for NYT_Polycom_RPX.jpgLIFE-SIZE  Mary Jane Sedor and Larry Quinlan of Deloitte in their New York office on a video conference call with colleagues in Tennessee.

By SUSAN CATTO
Published: May 6, 2009

DON'T tell Marge Anderson that the era of the business meeting is over. As the associate director of the Energy Center of Wisconsin, a nonprofit institute in Madison that provides training in sustainable energy, she is still planning meetings -- the big kind, involving travel, attendance fees and hundreds of people.

There's just one problem: many of the contractors, architects and engineers who could most benefit from the training can no longer afford to travel to get it.

Can Telepresence Cure Flu-Related Travel Phobia?

May 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Swine_flu_kissing.jpgPosted by Ann All

With no one certain just how bad the swine flu outbreak is going to get, and folks increasingly talking about a pandemic, the flu is landing some blows on an already unsteady economy. Service and travel industries are taking especially hard hits. Pharmaceutical stocks, however, are rising right along with fear levels since their products could be used to fight the flu.

I wonder if the telepresence market won't see a similar boost. As I wrote back in October, business executives seemed bullish on it due to its ability to help companies cut costly business travel. Companies are still in a travel-cutting mode, evidenced by an announcement that crossed my desk this morning, that the Independent Oracle Users Group is offering virtual sessions for its annual users group conference next week in Orlando. The combination of an iffy economy and a possible pandemic may lead more companies to investigate telepresence.

Telepresence - time to work together

May 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Thumbnail image for CiscoCTS3000.jpgBy Simon Perry

Tired of your comms kit not working well with others? Quocirca's Simon Perry says it's time to push for compatibility in the telepresence space.

The technology world is no stranger to the emergence of competing standards - from Blu-ray versus HD DVD, to VHS versus Betamax. Eventually the market chooses a winner which goes on to enjoy accelerated market adoption.

Next best thing to "teleporting"?

May 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
cisco_chambers.jpgTech companies push "telepresence" videoconferences as substitute for air travel, but prices deter widespread adoption.

By Jon Fortt, senior writer

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco CEO John Chambers doesn't just talk a good game about telepresence, the videoconferencing technology that creates the illusion you're in a room with someone who's actually thousands of miles away. He's planning to install his company's high-end system in his Silicon Valley home, provided he and his wife can agree on a spot for it.

"I figured we could convert one of the kids' old bedrooms," since they've grown up and left the house," he says. "She told me, 'You do that and you'll be sleeping in there.'"

Though he's not done negotiating the location, one thing that Chambers doesn't have to worry about is cost. ­As longtime chief at the networking giant, he can surely afford the installation, which can easily run north of $150,000 per room.

Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity that Will Transform the World

May 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool

Ray Kurzweil is one of the most prolific inventors alive, and he has also made numerous startlingly accurate predictions. In this video, he talks about his vision of the Singularity -- a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence.

If Kurzweil is right, there will be supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades.


TelePresence @ Home

February 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool

FOXSexpert: Hooking Up to Internet Sex Toys

November 25, 2008 | John Serrao

Holobama: 'Holograms' greet Election 2008

November 6, 2008 | John Serrao

Home again

September 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool

War Is Halo

July 28, 2008 | Chris Payatagool

WAN refresh

April 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool

Just shoot me

February 24, 2008 | Chris Payatagool

Immersed in Work

February 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool

Presence of mind

January 15, 2008 | Howard Lichtman

Liberate your avatar

December 20, 2007 | Chris Payatagool

Samsung: Next HDTV to Offer 8x Better Resolution

December 18, 2007 | John Serrao

Endless Self-Reinvention in Virtual Worlds

November 28, 2007 | John Serrao

It's Telepresence

November 14, 2007 | Chris Payatagool

Polycom Steps on the High Definition Gas

October 17, 2007 | John Serrao
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