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Telepresence: A Manifesto
September 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence calls for a remote-controlled robot economy
Mind and Machine: Marvin Minsky holds a 14-jointed, three-elbowed, computer-controlled, hydraulically muscled mechanical arm that he built at his MIT lab in the 1970s. This photo appeared in the article "Telepresence," republished here, in the June 1980 issue of Omni.
Over 30 years ago, MIT professor and artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky laid out an ambitious plan calling for the development of advanced teleoperated robotic systems that would usher in a "remote-controlled economy." He coined the term "telepresence" to describe these systems, which in his futuristic vision would transform work, manufacturing, energy production, medicine, and many other facets of modern life. His plan appeared as an essay in the June 1980 issue of the influential--and now defunct--science and science fiction magazine Omni. Today, despite the advances in computers and robotics, Minsky's manifesto remains as current and compelling as ever, a powerful call for a technology that could bring about huge societal benefits. IEEE Spectrum reproduces here his essay in full.
Mind and Machine: Marvin Minsky holds a 14-jointed, three-elbowed, computer-controlled, hydraulically muscled mechanical arm that he built at his MIT lab in the 1970s. This photo appeared in the article "Telepresence," republished here, in the June 1980 issue of Omni.
Over 30 years ago, MIT professor and artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky laid out an ambitious plan calling for the development of advanced teleoperated robotic systems that would usher in a "remote-controlled economy." He coined the term "telepresence" to describe these systems, which in his futuristic vision would transform work, manufacturing, energy production, medicine, and many other facets of modern life. His plan appeared as an essay in the June 1980 issue of the influential--and now defunct--science and science fiction magazine Omni. Today, despite the advances in computers and robotics, Minsky's manifesto remains as current and compelling as ever, a powerful call for a technology that could bring about huge societal benefits. IEEE Spectrum reproduces here his essay in full.
Toshiba 3D TV line packs a surprise: No glasses
August 31, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Toshiba will release a 3D TV that utilizes glasses-free, autostereoscopy technology. One newspaper says the 3D sets will hit as soon as the end of the year.
By Matthew Shaer
Toshiba will release a new 3D television in Japan by the end of the year - and unlike previous Toshiba 3D TV sets, this one won't require the viewers to wear those pesky glasses. That's the word today from Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbu, which says the newest Toshiba televisions will use some sort of autostereoscopy 3D technology.
In an interview today with the Associated Press, Toshiba spokesperson Yuko Sugahara did not comment on rumors that a glasses-free 3D TV would hit shelves before the end of the year. But she did confirm that Toshiba was working on the technology. "Many people don't like to wear glasses to watch TV for a long time, especially people who must wear 3-D glasses over regular glasses," Sugahara said.
Cisco to buy Skype, pre-IPO? (and lock out)
August 30, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
By Richi Jennings.
Here's an interesting rumor. Apparently, Cisco wants to buy Skype, thus skipping the P2P VoIP company's initial public offering. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder what it all means (and if it's true).
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Valérie Lemercier's strangely hirsute shoulders...
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Michael Arrington crunches the rumors:
Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype ... says one of our more reliable sources. ... If true this would be one very big acquisition. Skype insiders are hoping for a ... valuation of $5 billion or so, we've heard.
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Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer. For M0RE
Brian Caulfield adds:
A bid for Skype would head off a long-awaited initial public offering for the London-based company. It would also pit Cisco, a networking gear vendor, against Google, which has its own telephony offerings. For M0RE
Here's an interesting rumor. Apparently, Cisco wants to buy Skype, thus skipping the P2P VoIP company's initial public offering. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder what it all means (and if it's true).
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Valérie Lemercier's strangely hirsute shoulders...
(CSCO) (GOOG) (EBAY)
Michael Arrington crunches the rumors:
Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype ... says one of our more reliable sources. ... If true this would be one very big acquisition. Skype insiders are hoping for a ... valuation of $5 billion or so, we've heard.
...
Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer. For M0RE
Brian Caulfield adds:
A bid for Skype would head off a long-awaited initial public offering for the London-based company. It would also pit Cisco, a networking gear vendor, against Google, which has its own telephony offerings. For M0RE
Vu Telepresence parent Zenith Infotech Takes Top Honors in Three of Eight Award Categories at 2010 XChange Americas
August 30, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Zenith Infotech, an innovative technology company whose solutions include a managed service back office, disaster recovery solutions, U.S. based help desk, and a private cloud solution, took top honors across one-third of the award categories during Everything Channel's 2010 XChange Americas event last week. Technology solution providers attending the conference chose Zenith as the clear winner of this year's XChange XCellence awards, including XCellence in Service, Breakthrough Technology Vendor and Overall Best of Show categories.
IT solution providers selected Zenith for the XCellence in Service award based on the company's commitment to "solving real business technology needs" within strong market segments. Other contributing factors that led to Zenith's selection included the company's exceptional channel programs aimed at providing partners with solid profit margins.
In the Breakthrough Technology Vendor category, Zenith was recognized for both enhancing and introducing products that enable its partners to develop new revenue streams. The company recently launched its SmartStyle Computing line of cloud solutions targeted to the small-to-midsized business market, and Vu Tele Presence, which offers budget and environment friendly advantages of videoconferencing, but through a much more life-like and engaging experience.
IT solution providers selected Zenith for the XCellence in Service award based on the company's commitment to "solving real business technology needs" within strong market segments. Other contributing factors that led to Zenith's selection included the company's exceptional channel programs aimed at providing partners with solid profit margins.
In the Breakthrough Technology Vendor category, Zenith was recognized for both enhancing and introducing products that enable its partners to develop new revenue streams. The company recently launched its SmartStyle Computing line of cloud solutions targeted to the small-to-midsized business market, and Vu Tele Presence, which offers budget and environment friendly advantages of videoconferencing, but through a much more life-like and engaging experience.
HP's wide, wide, wide high-definition screen
August 25, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
HP's Phil McKinney shows off a wide, wide, wide high-definition screen
By Dean Takahashi via VentureBea
Hewlett Packard is working on a display with a really wide screen. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer at the Personal Systems Group at HP, showed off the concept for the screen at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference this week in San Jose, Calif.
The screen is so wide that you can see an entire pro basketball court at the same time. McKinney referred to the screen as a "triple wide high-definition" screen that is created by stitching together images from lots of different cameras pointed at slightly different parts of the same scene. The company is working with the National Basketball League to develop truly immersive screens that make you feel like you're there on the sidelines.
"We can literally create the Jack Nicholson seat," McKinney said, referring to the courtside seat that actor Nicholson has had for more than three decades at Lakers games. "You get a fresh, seamless experience. You can see end to end, the entire width of the court."
By Dean Takahashi via VentureBea
Hewlett Packard is working on a display with a really wide screen. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer at the Personal Systems Group at HP, showed off the concept for the screen at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference this week in San Jose, Calif.
The screen is so wide that you can see an entire pro basketball court at the same time. McKinney referred to the screen as a "triple wide high-definition" screen that is created by stitching together images from lots of different cameras pointed at slightly different parts of the same scene. The company is working with the National Basketball League to develop truly immersive screens that make you feel like you're there on the sidelines.
"We can literally create the Jack Nicholson seat," McKinney said, referring to the courtside seat that actor Nicholson has had for more than three decades at Lakers games. "You get a fresh, seamless experience. You can see end to end, the entire width of the court."
Virtual reality you can touch
August 25, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Researchers at the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich have developed a method with which they can produce virtual copies of real objects. The copies can be touched and even sent via the Internet. By incorporating the sense of touch, the user can delve deeper into virtual reality.
Sending a friend a virtual birthday present, or quickly beaming a new product over to a customer in America to try out - it sounds like science fiction, but this is what researchers at the Computer Vision Lab want to make possible, with the aid of new technology. Their first step was to successfully transmit a virtual object to a spatially remote person, who could not only see the object, but also feel it and move it.
Incorporating all the senses
The more senses are stimulated, the greater the degree of immersion in the virtual reality. While visual and acoustic simulation of virtual reality has become increasingly realistic in recent years, development in the haptic area, in other words the sense of touch, lags far behind. Up to now, it has not been possible to touch the virtual copy of an object, or to move it. The aim of the EU project "Immersence", in which ETH Zurich has also been involved, was to develop new methods for haptic interaction. Matthias Harders, together with other scientists from the Computer Vision Lab, led the sub-project which dealt with interaction between people and virtual objects.
Sending a friend a virtual birthday present, or quickly beaming a new product over to a customer in America to try out - it sounds like science fiction, but this is what researchers at the Computer Vision Lab want to make possible, with the aid of new technology. Their first step was to successfully transmit a virtual object to a spatially remote person, who could not only see the object, but also feel it and move it.
Incorporating all the senses
The more senses are stimulated, the greater the degree of immersion in the virtual reality. While visual and acoustic simulation of virtual reality has become increasingly realistic in recent years, development in the haptic area, in other words the sense of touch, lags far behind. Up to now, it has not been possible to touch the virtual copy of an object, or to move it. The aim of the EU project "Immersence", in which ETH Zurich has also been involved, was to develop new methods for haptic interaction. Matthias Harders, together with other scientists from the Computer Vision Lab, led the sub-project which dealt with interaction between people and virtual objects.
HP projection technology could take a page from Star Wars
August 24, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
By Paul Krill via InfoWorld
Businesspeople would be projected into meetings the same way R2D2 projected a hologram of Princess Leia
In the future, business meetings might seem like a scene out of the movie "Star Wars," if technology envisioned at Hewlett-Packard comes to fruition.
Stars Wars-like 3-D projection technology is on the drawing board at the company, with the potential to project businesspersons at many locations into virtual reality-like meetings, reducing the need to hop on airplanes and spend significant time away from home.
"The whole concept behind how do you project somebody into the room is that you have people who are scattered around the country but you re-create them so that they feel like they're part of the room," said Phil McKinney, CTO for the Personal Systems Group at HP, at the Emerging Display Technologies Conference on Thursday in San Jose, Calif. This capability can be done in a low-resolution format today, but HP is pondering next-generation scenarios.
Businesspeople would be projected into meetings the same way R2D2 projected a hologram of Princess Leia
In the future, business meetings might seem like a scene out of the movie "Star Wars," if technology envisioned at Hewlett-Packard comes to fruition.
Stars Wars-like 3-D projection technology is on the drawing board at the company, with the potential to project businesspersons at many locations into virtual reality-like meetings, reducing the need to hop on airplanes and spend significant time away from home.
"The whole concept behind how do you project somebody into the room is that you have people who are scattered around the country but you re-create them so that they feel like they're part of the room," said Phil McKinney, CTO for the Personal Systems Group at HP, at the Emerging Display Technologies Conference on Thursday in San Jose, Calif. This capability can be done in a low-resolution format today, but HP is pondering next-generation scenarios.
Telepresence and video conferencing: The business case
August 11, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
By Georgina Swan via ComputerWorld
It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.
Until Starwood Hotels unveiled its suite at Sheraton on the Park in February, telepresence in Australia was little more than a showcase technology. Impressive, immersive and bleeding edge, vendors were keen to promote the benefits but, with a hefty pricetag, the concept of virtual meetings featured well and truly on the 'nice to have' side of CIO's priority lists, if indeed it featured at all.
Not that it isn't a compelling technology. Far from it. But organisations have been hard pressed to assemble a suitable business case for implementation. Starwood had no such issue. The group is in the midst of stage one of a global rollout that aims to install 70 telepresence suites in cities around the world by the end of this year. Tokyo has just come online, joining the likes of Chicago, London, Los Angeles and several locations across Asia. At the current rate of implantation, about six rooms are going live each month.
It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.
Until Starwood Hotels unveiled its suite at Sheraton on the Park in February, telepresence in Australia was little more than a showcase technology. Impressive, immersive and bleeding edge, vendors were keen to promote the benefits but, with a hefty pricetag, the concept of virtual meetings featured well and truly on the 'nice to have' side of CIO's priority lists, if indeed it featured at all.
Not that it isn't a compelling technology. Far from it. But organisations have been hard pressed to assemble a suitable business case for implementation. Starwood had no such issue. The group is in the midst of stage one of a global rollout that aims to install 70 telepresence suites in cities around the world by the end of this year. Tokyo has just come online, joining the likes of Chicago, London, Los Angeles and several locations across Asia. At the current rate of implantation, about six rooms are going live each month.
Holographic Displays, Robot Eyes Hint at Your Interactive Future (w/ Video)
August 9, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
By Priya Ganapati via Gadget Lab
Not needing glasses for 3-D is enough to blow the minds of most people. But take it to the next step -- a 3-D display that isn't flat and requires no glasses -- and it becomes a prop from a sci-fi film.
In stores, Sony's pushing big, flat screen 3-D TVs that require a pair of special glasses. But in its labs, the company has created a prototype 3-D display wrapped in a cylinder that's 10 inches tall and has a diameter of 5 inches.
While it's smaller than a TV, that shape lets you stand anywhere in front of it and see a 3-D image, like a little holographic projection of Princess Leia. You can even reach into the display and turn the objects inside it to see them from all angles.
Not needing glasses for 3-D is enough to blow the minds of most people. But take it to the next step -- a 3-D display that isn't flat and requires no glasses -- and it becomes a prop from a sci-fi film.
In stores, Sony's pushing big, flat screen 3-D TVs that require a pair of special glasses. But in its labs, the company has created a prototype 3-D display wrapped in a cylinder that's 10 inches tall and has a diameter of 5 inches.
While it's smaller than a TV, that shape lets you stand anywhere in front of it and see a 3-D image, like a little holographic projection of Princess Leia. You can even reach into the display and turn the objects inside it to see them from all angles.
LifeSize Extends Reach into U.S. Federal Market with JITC Certification
August 9, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributor
LifeSize Communications, which designs and delivers high definition video communications products that provide a productive, true-to-life experience, has attained Joint Interoperability Test Command "JITC" certification forLifeSize ( News - Alert) Room, Team, and Express HD video conferencing systems as well as the LifeSize Networker gateway - in a bid to extend their reach into the U.S. federal market.
These products have gotten Interoperability Certification and Information Assurance accreditation from JITC, which provides a full-range of agile and cost-effective test, evaluation, and certification services to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities. JITC It is the organizational element of the Defense Information Systems Agency responsible for certifying joint and combined interoperability of all Department of Defense "DoD" information technology and national security systems.
LifeSize Communications, which designs and delivers high definition video communications products that provide a productive, true-to-life experience, has attained Joint Interoperability Test Command "JITC" certification forLifeSize ( News - Alert) Room, Team, and Express HD video conferencing systems as well as the LifeSize Networker gateway - in a bid to extend their reach into the U.S. federal market.
These products have gotten Interoperability Certification and Information Assurance accreditation from JITC, which provides a full-range of agile and cost-effective test, evaluation, and certification services to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities. JITC It is the organizational element of the Defense Information Systems Agency responsible for certifying joint and combined interoperability of all Department of Defense "DoD" information technology and national security systems.
Beyond the touchscreen: Projecting the future
August 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Imagine a cookie that changes flavour on the spot, or a furry computer
display that you stroke when you miss your cat. It might sound like
fantasy, but visitors to the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles this month have experienced nothing less from the new technologies on display.
Here, New Scientist brings you some of the extraordinary computer displays on show - a preview of how we could interact with computers in the future.
1. One cookie, seven flavors
Put on this headset and turn a plain cookie into your favourite flavour. Read more
Here, New Scientist brings you some of the extraordinary computer displays on show - a preview of how we could interact with computers in the future.
1. One cookie, seven flavors
Put on this headset and turn a plain cookie into your favourite flavour. Read more
Vidyo: Videoconferencing's Best Hope?
August 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
A New Jersey startup gets pricey and basic systems communicating--and could be videoconferencing's ticket to the mainstream
By Peter Burrows via Bussiness Week
At most companies, videoconferencing has yet to evolve from a technological parlor trick into an everyday utility like e-mail. One reason is there's no cheap and easy way to make it available on all the devices people use. Even companies that opt for top-of-the-line equipment from Cisco Systems (CSCO) or Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)often pay nearly $1 million to upgrade the underlying corporate network, says IDC analyst Jonathan Edwards.
That's why tech industry veterans are keeping a close eye on Vidyo, whose technology will soon be sold by HP. The 120-person startup, based in Hackensack, N.J., makes software it says can run on almost any device that connects to the Net--and adjusts whether that's a high-speed link in the boardroom or a cell connection from the 18th hole. While most companies buy a few high-end videoconferencing systems for executives, "We want to connect millions of people," says Vidyo Chief Executive Ofer Shapiro.
By Peter Burrows via Bussiness Week
At most companies, videoconferencing has yet to evolve from a technological parlor trick into an everyday utility like e-mail. One reason is there's no cheap and easy way to make it available on all the devices people use. Even companies that opt for top-of-the-line equipment from Cisco Systems (CSCO) or Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)often pay nearly $1 million to upgrade the underlying corporate network, says IDC analyst Jonathan Edwards.
That's why tech industry veterans are keeping a close eye on Vidyo, whose technology will soon be sold by HP. The 120-person startup, based in Hackensack, N.J., makes software it says can run on almost any device that connects to the Net--and adjusts whether that's a high-speed link in the boardroom or a cell connection from the 18th hole. While most companies buy a few high-end videoconferencing systems for executives, "We want to connect millions of people," says Vidyo Chief Executive Ofer Shapiro.
Web 2.0 for TelePresence or Life After Second Life?
August 5, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Interview about 3D virtual meeting platform VenueGen
By Xenia Von Wedal via Sys-Con Media
In a meeting with the CEO of VenueGen, David Gardner, I am seated face-to-face with David's avatar in one of VenueGen's virtual board rooms. While answering my questions, he looks in my eyes and expresses to me how passionate he is about the topic when it dawns on me--what he really means with virtual interaction. I think to myself, "Oh wait, he is actually 2,000 miles away, his avatar is looking in my--avatar's--eyes..." *blush*
Is VenueGen the death of the webinar?
David Gardner: Not necessarily. Different modalities are good for different uses. Well, the Internet certainly has revolutionized the way people consume media. The Internet is interactive, and so is the VenueGen virtual meetings platform. Virtual meetings are used for three things: everyday meetings, training, and events. Meetings and trainings are highly collaborative, and VenueGen provides a highly collaborative platform to meet this need, whereas webinars have been utilized largely for passive events, like watching TV. So, in short, if companies want Webinars where audiences are passive listeners, they can select a passive platform. If companies want a virtual meeting that encourages participation, then they can select an interactive platform. Our view is that webinars and events will become highly interactive - that's where it's all heading.
By Xenia Von Wedal via Sys-Con Media
In a meeting with the CEO of VenueGen, David Gardner, I am seated face-to-face with David's avatar in one of VenueGen's virtual board rooms. While answering my questions, he looks in my eyes and expresses to me how passionate he is about the topic when it dawns on me--what he really means with virtual interaction. I think to myself, "Oh wait, he is actually 2,000 miles away, his avatar is looking in my--avatar's--eyes..." *blush*
Is VenueGen the death of the webinar?
David Gardner: Not necessarily. Different modalities are good for different uses. Well, the Internet certainly has revolutionized the way people consume media. The Internet is interactive, and so is the VenueGen virtual meetings platform. Virtual meetings are used for three things: everyday meetings, training, and events. Meetings and trainings are highly collaborative, and VenueGen provides a highly collaborative platform to meet this need, whereas webinars have been utilized largely for passive events, like watching TV. So, in short, if companies want Webinars where audiences are passive listeners, they can select a passive platform. If companies want a virtual meeting that encourages participation, then they can select an interactive platform. Our view is that webinars and events will become highly interactive - that's where it's all heading.
Adding sensation of temperature to users' experience of a simulated environment
August 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
From Christopher Mims' Mims's Bits blog at MIT's Technology Review
via ISPR
Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction
An experimental new game controller adds the sensation of hot and cold to users' experience of a simulated environment
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part of how we interact with computers, in the form of iPads, rumbling video game controllers and even three-dimensional joysticks. As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics.
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers.
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.
via ISPR
Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction
An experimental new game controller adds the sensation of hot and cold to users' experience of a simulated environment
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part of how we interact with computers, in the form of iPads, rumbling video game controllers and even three-dimensional joysticks. As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics.
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers.
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.
Freakish Spermbot Could Be the Future of Japanese Communication (w/ Video)
August 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
via Gizmodo
Telenoid R1, the robot brainchild of designer Hiroshi Ishiguro, is what I imagine it would look like if Casper the Friendly Ghost got lucky with a sperm. It could also be the future of telepresence in Japan.
The 11-lb. robot's arm stubs, flagella tail, eyes, mouth and limbs all move in tune with the user, courtesy 9 actuators contained within. And yes, the androgyny is on purpose because it theoretically allows both male and female users to use it to scare relatives and friends with equal ease.
And just how much does pure, androgynous terror cost? A cool $35,000, which, sadly, does not include the cost of therapy. A cheaper, although no less terrifying talking scarecrow version covered with cloth instead of silicone is expected to sell for $8,000 sometime in 2011.
Telenoid R1, the robot brainchild of designer Hiroshi Ishiguro, is what I imagine it would look like if Casper the Friendly Ghost got lucky with a sperm. It could also be the future of telepresence in Japan.
The 11-lb. robot's arm stubs, flagella tail, eyes, mouth and limbs all move in tune with the user, courtesy 9 actuators contained within. And yes, the androgyny is on purpose because it theoretically allows both male and female users to use it to scare relatives and friends with equal ease.
And just how much does pure, androgynous terror cost? A cool $35,000, which, sadly, does not include the cost of therapy. A cheaper, although no less terrifying talking scarecrow version covered with cloth instead of silicone is expected to sell for $8,000 sometime in 2011.
Eye contact via Head-mounted Mobile Video Communication System (w/ Video)
July 30, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Head-mounted Mobile Video Communication System
At Wireless Japan 2010, the Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications exhibited a mobile videophone that enables truly effective communication, using a head-mounted display and various sensors.
"We think that a weakness of ordinary videophones is, they don't let people make eye contact. That's a big defect in terms of effective communication. We've created something that overcomes that defect."
This system has acceleration and position sensors built into a head-mounted display. A microcomputer detects the vertical and horizontal motion of the user's head, and controls the camera using a servomotor.
"The video captured by this camera is shown on a see-through head-mounted display. So when you put on the display and move your head around, you can see video linked to the movement of your head."
At Wireless Japan 2010, the Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications exhibited a mobile videophone that enables truly effective communication, using a head-mounted display and various sensors.
"We think that a weakness of ordinary videophones is, they don't let people make eye contact. That's a big defect in terms of effective communication. We've created something that overcomes that defect."
This system has acceleration and position sensors built into a head-mounted display. A microcomputer detects the vertical and horizontal motion of the user's head, and controls the camera using a servomotor.
"The video captured by this camera is shown on a see-through head-mounted display. So when you put on the display and move your head around, you can see video linked to the movement of your head."
Meta Cookie uses augmented reality to control cookie flavor
July 29, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Real Cookies Butt Heads With Virtual Ones
By Stuart Fox, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
via ISPR
LOS ANGELES -- Between the crunch, the buttery feel in your mouth and the rich taste, cookies seem pretty perfect already. But they're not quite perfect enough for Takuji Narumi of Tokyo University. Here at the SIGGRAPH computer animation and interactive technology conference, Takuji and his team unveiled their Meta Cookie system, which uses virtual reality to try to control the flavor of a cookie.
The Meta Cookie system takes advantage of a principle that any good chef knows: We taste with our eyes and nose before any food enters our mouth. By replicating the image of a cookie of a particular flavor through a virtual reality headset, and then reproducing the scent of that cookie using special perfume tubes aimed at the nose, the Meta Cookie can trick the user's brain into thinking that a flavorless sugar cookie is actually a chocolate or almond cookie.
Anybots launches "telepresence robots" to handle your business travel
July 28, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Silicon Valley startup Anybots is entering the increasingly competitive field "telepresence robot" market today with the release of its first robot. Telepresence robots work as stand-ins for people who operate them remotely.
A telepresence robot can, for example, tour a plant in China while the person controlling it follows along from their office in California. The tour guide could talk to the robot like they're talking to the person on the other end and can soon forget they're talking to a robot.
Cisco Systems' TelePresence and HP's Halo system, among others, already link two distant locations by a high-definition hookup with such sharp resolution that people on each end of the connection feel like they are in the same room. But telepresence robots go one step further: They can move out the conference room, down the hall, onto the factory floor, anywhere their motorized wheels can take them.
Human Presence Learning Environment brings human element to distance education
July 26, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
The Human Element
From Inside HigherEd
Douglas E. Hersh's close crop of auburn hair and neatly trimmed goatee are clearly visible in an expandable window on my desktop. So are his light tweed blazer and matching tie. On a table behind his desk sits a purple orchid, lending color to his office -- 2,600 miles away from mine.
The technology that allows me to see Hersh's face as he speaks to me is not new. But Hersh, dean of educational programs and technology at Santa Barbara City College, believes it may hold the key to solving an old problem that has plagued distance education since its beginnings: the retention gap.
A growing body of research has all but obliterated the notion that distance education is inherently less effective than classroom education. But even the most ardent distance-ed evangelists cannot deny persistent evidence suggesting that students are more likely to drop out of online programs than traditional ones. The phenomenon has many explanations, not least the fact that what often makes students choose the flexibility of online learning -- being too busy to enroll in a classroom course -- can also make it harder for them to keep up with their studies.
From Inside HigherEd
Douglas E. Hersh's close crop of auburn hair and neatly trimmed goatee are clearly visible in an expandable window on my desktop. So are his light tweed blazer and matching tie. On a table behind his desk sits a purple orchid, lending color to his office -- 2,600 miles away from mine.
The technology that allows me to see Hersh's face as he speaks to me is not new. But Hersh, dean of educational programs and technology at Santa Barbara City College, believes it may hold the key to solving an old problem that has plagued distance education since its beginnings: the retention gap.
A growing body of research has all but obliterated the notion that distance education is inherently less effective than classroom education. But even the most ardent distance-ed evangelists cannot deny persistent evidence suggesting that students are more likely to drop out of online programs than traditional ones. The phenomenon has many explanations, not least the fact that what often makes students choose the flexibility of online learning -- being too busy to enroll in a classroom course -- can also make it harder for them to keep up with their studies.
Cisco may call home TelePresence 'UMI'
July 26, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Beyond: Collapsible input device for direct 3D manipulation beyond the screen
July 22, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
'Virtual preaching' transforms Sunday sermons
July 15, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
B2B Video with BT-Conferencing
July 14, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Options Publisher Speaking at Focus Chicago 2010 on July 20th
July 13, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Get ready for baseball in 3-D
July 13, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Inside Anybots And The Rise of Human-Size Telepresence Robots (videos)
July 12, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco's HealthPresence in India and beyond
July 12, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Vgo, the telepresence droid untethers video equipment from the conference room
July 9, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Microsoft exploits transparent OLED
July 5, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Next Generation CAVE, 3-D imaging can be a giant leap for health care
June 28, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Winging It: Telepresence technology helping businesses cut back on travel
June 28, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
GetThere and Tata Communications Partner to Offer Public and Private Telepresence Rooms for Customers
June 21, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Microsoft unveils Xbox 'Kinect' motion controller
June 18, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence In Virtual Events With G2Events
June 15, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Steve Jobs has lofty goal for FaceTime video chat with an open standard
June 14, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Kids experiment with 'video playdates'
June 14, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Lifesize Partners with LG Electronics on HD Video
June 10, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
HP, Vidyo Partner On Videoconferencing
June 10, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
It's Official: Apple's iPhone 4, on Sale June 24th and has Video Conferencing
June 7, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Future of display is here: Latest tech visions for touch screens, monitors of next-Gen gadgets
June 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Allied Fiber: The Network Branches Out
June 4, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Surveillance Software Knows What a Camera Sees
June 4, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Vgo Telepresence Bot Revealed: A Whole Remote-Working Day of Battery
June 3, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Google powers awesome Iron Man flight simulator
June 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco helps build prototype for instant cities
June 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
The New and Improved Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog - Get the Full Tour Here
June 2, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Frank Tobe's Robot Report notes Telepresence Robotics in its List of 10 Drivers Propelling Growth in Service Robotics
June 1, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
HP Halo: It's divine videoconferencing
May 26, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
SMBs Want To Enjoy Video Conferencing Too!
May 26, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Seeing is understanding -- using artificial intelligence to analyse multimedia content
May 21, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Businesses to Gain a Larger ROI with BrightCom Telepresence Support of Digital Signage
May 20, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Childrens' dental practice deploys Appia Video Communications to improve collaboration and training opportunities
May 20, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco testing consumer TelePresence, launch soon and potential online school heaven?
May 20, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
tw Telecom Introduces TelePresence Conferencing Solutions in Collaboration With Cisco, BT
May 19, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
The telepresence robots are coming
May 19, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Vidyo Launches Healthcare Telepresence
May 13, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
York Telecom-Savvis Team Up To Provide Managed Cisco Telepresence Service on the Savvis Global Network
May 12, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
BightCom Sponsored USC Research Surveys Teleconferencing Adoption Via Business Travel and Employee Utilization
May 12, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Beaming Into the Big Meeting
May 8, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
LifeSize Shapes Up for Managed Video Services
May 7, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Yahoo Exploring Virtual Reality?
May 7, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
New Mexico firm thinking beyond military applications for surround-imagery Multifunction Dome technology
May 7, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Winscape: Virtual reality windows are here
May 7, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco and Tandberg Prepare to Dominate Business Video Market in Cisco
May 3, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling
April 30, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Vidyo Delivers Telepresence to Executive Desktop in Touch Screen Form Factor
April 30, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
The Video Vision: Is Cisco-Tandberg Good For The Channel?
April 22, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
RADVISION's New Rad-Rooms
April 21, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Turning to Teleconferencing as Air Travel Stalls
April 21, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco promises to open source Telepresence Interoperability Protocol
April 21, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
In brief: Polycom to explore possible sale
April 16, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
The European Commission Approves Final Step in TANDBERG Purchase by Cisco
April 16, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
The Story of LifeSize Communications (and Craig Malloy)
April 15, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
How a Business Can Span the Globe and Stay Close-Knit: Microsoft's "Telepresence" Project
April 14, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Telepresence Industry Professionals Dinner - Reston, VA - Wednesday, April 21st - 7:00 PM
April 12, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
In The Picture
April 12, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Teleflirtation: The latest hot way to hook up
April 11, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Polycom (PLCM) Sees Renewed Interest From Gores Group
March 30, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
April Issue of the Telepresence Options Telegraph
March 30, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Down To Business: Cisco Talks Telepresence Direction
March 24, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Polycom won't be sold to Apax Partners
March 24, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
HP inks strategic deal with Polycom, abandons Tandberg
March 20, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Deploy State-Of-The-Art Telepresence and Videoconferencing Service Management Environment
March 20, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Google TV Coming to Make Your TV a Larger Computer
March 20, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Telepresence Revenues Set to Grow in Asia-Pacific Market
March 18, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Victorian First Auslan Video Interpreting Service
March 17, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Need a translation? Google awaits your call
March 13, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence: coming to a screen near you?
March 11, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Skype on TV: Will the videophone finally be reality?
March 8, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Tata Comms preps move for enterprise
March 8, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Three Points About Unified Anything - Unified Communications, Collaboration, Change, etc.
March 4, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco Announces HealthPresence Platform
March 2, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
MeBot telepresence robot
March 2, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Global CIO Quick Take: Cisco TelePresence Shaping Next-Gen Hotels
February 25, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
February 20, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Perform on-stage with rock band Abba... Virtually...
February 10, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter Video Network Infrastructure Awards
February 9, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
NLR, Internet2 on TelePresence at Joint Techs
February 8, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Hotel Guests Checking Into Public Cisco TelePresence Rooms
January 29, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Augmented reality: the next generation
January 28, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Anybots Telepresence Robots Go into Mass Production
January 26, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Siemens, Polycom in Video Conferencing Alliance
January 22, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Heil The New xVC Heir: HVC
January 20, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
BrightCom, Others Sponsor Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook
January 20, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
NES to Avaya, Tandberg (Soon) to Cisco as Industry Consolidation Accelerates
January 17, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Why You Should Stop Selling Telepresence!
January 15, 2010 | Howard Lichtman
Telepresence: Who Is Vu Technologies?
January 14, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Sony Expands HD Videoconferencing Family
January 13, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cheat Sheet: Choosing the Right 3D Technology
January 13, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
A View From The Road - Volume 4, Number 1
January 11, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Intel CEO Demos Video Conferencing on a Smartphone
January 11, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Toshiba unveils TV that converts 2-D to 3-D
January 8, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Seven things you need to know about augmented reality
January 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco bringing high-end videoconferencing to homes
January 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Panasonic Powers Up HD Visual Communications System
January 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom teams with IBM in consumer videoconference
January 7, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Skype to offer HD video calling on some new TVs
January 6, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
ESPN, Discovery launching 3D television networks
January 5, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
'Augmented Reality' Is Tech Industry's Next Step
January 3, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco Exec Sees TelePresence Interoperability Evolving, Costs Dropping
January 3, 2010 | Chris Payatagool
Avatar's success is a godsend for 3-D vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show
December 29, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook
December 21, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Annual revenue run rate for Cisco TelePresence is $200 million
December 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sensory Experience - A Sense Of Interfaces To Come
December 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
NFL's Cowboys Plan Texas-Size 3D Demo
December 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The future of WiFi: gigabit speeds and beyond
December 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sony to Discontinue Videoconferencing Business in EMEA
December 4, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Updated! Cisco Has 91% of TANDBERG, Closes TANDBERG Acquisition!
December 4, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco Now Controls 84% of TANDBERG Shares
December 2, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Movistar eyes telepresence opportunities
November 30, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Netscapes: Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit
November 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Interoperability: The Next Great Frontier for Telepresence.
November 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Technology Lets You Command a Computer With Gestures
November 23, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco's TelePresence Translation Will Have to Wait
November 20, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic
November 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Big TMCs Tool Up For Telepresence
November 13, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The November Edition of the Telepresence Options Telegraph Newsletter
November 11, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco Collaboration Vision: New Launch Enhances Market Position
November 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Hotels Find Keeping Travelers at Home Can Be Good Business
November 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco extends offer period for Tandberg bid
November 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco undervalues Tandberg, investment firms say
November 9, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool
November 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sony demos game controller to track motion and emotion
November 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
AmericaFree.TV First Annual Virtual Movie Festival Connects Filmmakers, Distributors Virtually Across the Globe
November 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
iPeak Networks IPQ Solution Reduces Packet Loss for TP and Videoconferencing
November 5, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
OppenheimerFunds opposes Cisco offer for Tandberg
November 5, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco Lays out Why It Might Let Tandberg Go Free
November 3, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
From Telepresence to the Desktop - Video Comes Of Age (The video conference room is dead - long live video conferencing)
November 2, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Industry Professionals Dinner - Los Angeles (Marina Del Ray), CA - Wednesday, Nov 11th
November 2, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco to Tandberg Shareholders: You'll Accept $3.04 billion and Like It
November 1, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom profit meets estimates, gives strong Q4 outlook
October 21, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco: Tandberg Bid Rejected By Group With 24% Stake As Too Low
October 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The videoconferencing firm is considering Cisco's $3 billion acquisition offer despite disfavor among large shareholders
October 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom seeking partnerships, Wall Street looking for deals
October 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
October 12, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Accenture's Telepresence Network: Connected to 31 Companies, 600 Rooms, and almost 2MM business users
October 12, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Updated: Telepresence Industry Professionals (TIP) Linkedin Discussion: Cisco Buys TANDBERG- What does everyone think?
October 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Jail selling ad space on video visitation monitors
October 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco-Tandberg deal could create conflict inside IT organizations
October 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Did the market for Cisco TelePresence hit a brick wall?
October 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Special Edition of the Telepresence Options Telegraph - Cisco Buys TANDBERG, IBM will Provide Telepresence Managed Services
October 1, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
American's Watch Eight+ Hours of Television Per Day
September 26, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
The Reality of Robot Surrogates
September 25, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Is H.264 SVC the Video Conferencing/Chat Panacea? - Excellent Telepresence Industry Professionals Discussion
September 25, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
New Telepresence Recorder for Cisco Telepresence
September 21, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
3-D television expected to come to homes in 2010
September 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Data Collaboration In Video Conferencing
September 17, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
IATA balloons loss forecast to $11 billion
September 17, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco expects 50% growth in telepresence
September 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sony to throw its weight behind 3D TV
September 5, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Huawei is developing the Chinese Telepresence market with single screen and 3-screen 1080p/720p HD video Telepresence solutions
September 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
AMD, HP, others sued over teleconferencing patent
September 1, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Army 'doc-bot' is at ease making the rounds
August 25, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco TelePresence Contest- Why do you want your Cisco TelePresence?
August 24, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Calit2 Visualization Team Develops 3-D Technology from Modified HDTV LCD Screens
August 20, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
American Express Business Travel Unveils Virtual Meetings Solution
August 18, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Allied Fiber is Building the First New Domestic Long Haul Fiber in a Decade
August 14, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco's Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says
August 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Will Videoconferencing Kill Business Class Travel?
August 5, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
HSBC: The Virtual Bank
August 5, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telework Day lands Tandberg participants
August 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The Nortel - Avaya Merger: The Brave New World of NorVaya - Brent Kelley, Wainhouse Research
July 27, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
July 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Bringing Down the Conference Walls: Telepresence Q&A with Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom
July 2, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Airlines adjust as demand slides
June 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Panel on connecting Inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing networks at Telx CBX - NYC, June 25th
June 23, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
A Full-Color Screen That Bends
June 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The Display That Watches You
June 6, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
AVI-SPL Teams Up with TelePresence Technologies
June 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telstra E&G makes big push into telepresence
May 28, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics
May 25, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Microsoft Swings at Wii With Videocam
May 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Stretchable Displays
May 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
A Meeting in New York? Can't We Videoconference?
May 15, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
On the Agenda: Modernizing the Meeting
May 10, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence - time to work together
May 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Next best thing to "teleporting"?
May 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Mr. airline CEO, meet telepresence (or else)
May 2, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence spurs on APAC market growth
May 2, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Hays Telecoms Reports That Employers Are Seeking Specialist Telecoms Talent
April 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
TANDBERG Drops After Polycom Results, Some analysts recommending "HOLD" or "SELL" for TAA
April 24, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Huawei releases telepresence system
April 23, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript / Polycom An Acquisition Target?
April 17, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Babel Fish Out, TeleLanguage In!
April 16, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Can Cisco turn the downturn into opportunity?
April 16, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The Best Computer Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future
April 13, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Samsung unveils LCD displays with super-thin bezels
April 9, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Executive Interview with Akihisa Obara, Senior Marketing Manager, Video Conference, Professional Solutions Europe
April 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco rolls out low-end ($89K) telepresence system
March 31, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Americans spend eight hours a day on screens
March 31, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sex with Robots: How Humanity Is Screwing Itself
March 31, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Telepresence With Grandma Makes Cisco Flip
March 27, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Body illusions: Body swap
March 27, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Webcam Brings 3-D to Topps Sports Cards
March 20, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds
March 20, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Made in IBM Labs: IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds
March 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rack
March 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Sony Updates Videoconferencing
March 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
TANDBERG Names BT a Total Service Certified Managed Service Provider
March 18, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Industry Professionals Discussion: What is Currently Missing to Enable B2B Telepresence Interconnect
March 17, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
XChange VARs Get Sneak Peek At New HP Video Technology
March 11, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Tandberg brings mobility to videoconferencing
March 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Founder wants to make his TelePresence known
March 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom Intros RMX 2000 V4 with Double Capacity HD Hardware
February 27, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Holograms: coming soon to your front room?
February 27, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
American University of Afghanistan selects Polycom telepresence systems
February 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Interview: BERTI robot designer
February 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
The Case for 4D Immersive Holographic Spaces
February 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco TelePresence Video Conferencing Enables Fans to Interact with NBA Players
February 17, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Audi and PDM Launch Australia's First 'Holographic Virtual Assistant'
February 17, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
When Daddy Is Off at War: A Hologram Home?
February 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Tata expands managed services reach in Asia
February 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Buying MPLS: Managed service providers versus carriers
February 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Reader Poll: What's Cisco Going To Do With $30 Billion Bucks? (with HSL prediction)
February 11, 2009 | Howard Lichtman
Bad economy lifts telepresence sales
February 11, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Keep an eye on the TV - with the TV in your eye
February 11, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Travel Goes the Way of the Dodo at Cisco
February 9, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom launches telepresence room rental
February 9, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Market Grows
February 9, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Q&A: Polycom CEO sees videoconferencing on handhelds
February 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
TelePresence @ Home
February 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
CMU 3D video conference system
February 4, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Tandberg Launches C60 Codec
January 28, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Immersive Gameplay: The Future Of Education?
January 28, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon Business inks $108M deal with NASA
January 21, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Streaming Dialogues, Uniting Cultures in the Classroom
January 21, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Nortel Customers Opt to Stick Around After Bankruptcy
January 21, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
A View From The Road - Volume 3, Number 1
January 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
High Definition Video Conferencing: How High is "High" and What Exactly is That Definition
January 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
TelePresence Returns at Mumbai Hotel
January 19, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
IBM Debuts "Virtual Mirror" Kiosks For Hair and Makeup Help
January 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
New Telepresence Robot from Anybots
January 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Taking 3-D to a new dimension: the TV
January 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display
January 14, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Pushing telepresence into the boardroom
January 8, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
With new chip technology, Hollywood digital effects are almost lifelike
January 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
Glowpoint Profit Margin May Rise to Almost 50% in 09
January 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
RoboDev: MIT's 'Huggable' Telepresence Bear
January 7, 2009 | Chris Payatagool
3G Watch Phone Unveiled
December 31, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Next Best Thing To Being There: Virtual Meetings Earn Their Rightful Place In Strategic Meetings Management
December 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
'Mind-reading' software could record your dreams
December 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
DREAM WORKS | Take The Red Pill
December 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The future is video-banking
December 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco plans TelePresence translation next year
December 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Body Swapping for People Now a Virtual Reality: Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston?
December 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Sevenfold Accuracy Improvement for 3-D 'Virtual Reality' Labs
December 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
First NFL Game in 3-D Fumbles, Then Recovers
December 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Two Polycom RealPresence Experience High Definition (RPX HD) Telepresence conference rooms were opened recently at Vodacom's headquarters, in Johannesburg and Cape Town
December 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
CEO Interview: Michael Brandofino, Chief Executive Officer, Glowpoint Part 1 & 2
December 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
HP Halo Telepresence Solutions has received the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Asia Pacific Telepresence Market Leadership Award
December 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Swapping your body becomes a virtual reality
December 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence: More Than Just HD Video Conferencing
December 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Look for managed network services to grow as economy tanks, industry experts say
December 1, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
With John the Plumber Working On the Pipes, Video Conferencing Will Flow
November 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
I-Ball technology to give troops eye on the ground
November 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Virtual software simulates thrill of real business meetings
November 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
FOXSexpert: Hooking Up to Internet Sex Toys
November 25, 2008 | John Serrao
Magic Johnson discusses video phones, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA
November 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Recording Telepresence Raises Security and Storage Issues
November 17, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Apple files for head-tracking display patents
November 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
New Yankee Stadium wired by Cisco
November 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Ancient Rome revived in 3-D show
November 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco CEO sees home TelePresence in around a year
November 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
CNN's 'holograms' just smoke and mirrors
November 11, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
FierceVoIP Leaders: Roberta Mackintosh, Executive Director of Advanced Voice and UC, Verizon Business
November 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Holobama: 'Holograms' greet Election 2008
November 6, 2008 | John Serrao
Videoconferences distort decisions with Howard Lichtman's Thoughts and Analysis
November 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Flashback - The Case for Publicly Available Telepresence
October 30, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
Telepresence: Just Like Being There
October 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Video Conferencing Becomes More Things to More People
October 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Telanetix Ultimate Home Office and Update and Interview with Sales VP J.D. Vaughn
October 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Scientist: Holographic television to become reality
October 7, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
ROVIO Rolls Out: First Impressions of WowWee's Surprising Telepresence Robot
October 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Flexible screen could lead to foldable computers
October 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
20 More Airlines Could Fail - IATA
October 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
150-Inch TV In Action: It'll Melt Brains and Empty Wallets
October 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Etiquette is essential when videoconferencing
October 1, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Beam Me Up, Scottie: Consumer Telepresence May Arrive Sooner Than You Think
September 29, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Videoconference Has a LifeSize Moment
September 29, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon Talks GMPLS, 100-Gig
September 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
TANDBERG Deploys Verizon Private IP to Power Global Collaboration
September 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telanetix dials telepresence deals with Imago
September 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Innovate
September 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon First to Offer Multinational Customers TPE Cable Capacity
September 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Theory and Research in HCI: Morton Heilig, Pioneer in Virtual Reality Research
September 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
DVE, WBS Connect, and Vidyo win "Best of Show" at IT EXPO
September 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
New Video System from Vidyo
September 17, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Home again
September 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Indian Telepresence market to reach $40MM by 2012: report
September 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Designers developing virtual-reality 'Cocoon'
September 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Net Insight, TeliaSonera International Carrier and DVE deliver the future of telepresence live at IBC 2008
September 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
AT&T gears up for APAC telepresence space
September 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Robot Deployed at the X PRIZE Foundation
September 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
HSBC begins TelePresence rollout
September 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
At ESPN, Play-by-Play Goes Virtual
September 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Immaterial display allows viewers to handle 3D images in air
September 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Great American Yard Sale - With Howard Lichtman's Thoughts and Analysis
September 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Is Telepresence a Good Alternative?
September 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence promises meetings that are as productive as face-to-face
September 3, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Interoperability - Deal With It!
August 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Chick-fil-A Church: How "video venues" are helping megachurches franchise.
August 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tata Communications plans public telepresence rooms in 100 cities worldwide by end 2009
August 20, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Video conferencing market rocked by Tandberg approach
August 18, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco posts solid quarter in challenging economy
August 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Economic Woes Boost Videoconferencing
August 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tata offers TelePresence rooms for rental
August 4, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
TelstraClear to develop trans-Tasman TelePresence
July 28, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
War Is Halo
July 28, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Forrester's CEO George Colony Tries TelePresence - with his Pros and Cons
July 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The 3D Internet Will Change How We Live
July 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
We're all there, and here
July 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Hiperspace Is the World's Highest Resolution Display
July 11, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Sharp's 108" LCD TV on sale for $185,000
July 11, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
One on One with Whitlock Group CEO Doug Hall
July 7, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
July 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tata launches hosted telepresence
July 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco TelePresence Coming to a Living Room Near You
June 27, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco sees $10 billion market in video
June 13, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Internet Traffic Growth Doesn't Matter
June 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence: Costly, but Very Cool
June 6, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
One-click to Virtual Meetings with Telstra
June 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Sustainable Development Commission, Institute for Public Policy Research and World Wide Fund for Nature Argue for Telepresence Integration into UK's Transport Infrastructure
June 4, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits
May 30, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Bank Systems & Technology - Howard S. Lichtman on Inter-company Telepresence for Banking Applications
May 29, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
Send your robot to work
May 28, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Waning Days of the Road Warrior
May 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
AMI Project Update - Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction
May 23, 2008 | John Serrao
3D and HD Television Update - 3D Without Glasses
May 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Orange Business Offers Telepresence Service
May 21, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence for the Rest of Us
May 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco, Teliris Cheapen Telepresence
May 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Tech Launches 3D TelePresence Room - Friday, May 9th - Plano, Texas
May 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
BT Lines Up Telepresence Service
May 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
'Telepresence' Is Taking Hold
May 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Hai Vision Multi-stream Encoder/Decoder MAKO-HD Overview - Subtitled in Japanese
April 30, 2008 | John Serrao
Multiview Video Conferencing Experience
April 28, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Sony Premieres HD Videoconferencing Solution
April 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel
April 25, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Plasma TV has nothing on this visionary virtual device
April 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Is Peering Breaking Down?
April 21, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Virtual Office Gains Ground
April 18, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
New 3-D Camera Will Have 12,616 Lenses
April 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
One virtual step for man, one real leap for mankind
April 15, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
BT extends video conferencing with Wire One acquisition
April 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Video Killed the Radio Star
April 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco tweaks telepresence for the whiteboard
April 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence: It's Not That Expensive
April 11, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tandberg opens R&D centre
April 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
More sense, less travel
April 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Teliris Scales Up Sales and Marketing Teams
April 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Virtual worlds invade the average business meeting
April 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away'
April 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Fingernail camera makes any object a touchpad
April 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Easynet launches managed telepresence service
April 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Everything Over IP
April 6, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
April 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
WAN refresh
April 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Vendors tackle high telepresence costs
April 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Strategy or Excuse? With HSL's Thoughts and Analysis
March 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Generous govt funding for projects to bridge 'physical and virtual' worlds
March 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tata Comm starts global TelePresence network
March 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
In the spotlight: Tandberg's Rick Snyder
March 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Going to the next dimension
March 18, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The problem with the telepresence picture
March 18, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
From MySpace to fakespace: How close are we to travel without moving?
March 18, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon moving to 100Gbps network in 2009
March 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telx Names Durvasula Chief Business Officer
March 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
How to future-proof your videoconferencing gear without breaking your wallet
March 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
'Telepresence' Enhances Video Conferencing
March 9, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
HaiVision Systems Appoints Image Design Technology as Primary Distributor for Australia and New Zealand
March 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Selling the green side of telepresence
March 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cellphone can read to you from pictures it takes
March 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tandberg - Apparently a Nice Place to Work
March 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Grappling with Cisco TelePresence, HP Halo drops pricing under half a million
February 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Z-Dome - 3D Immersive Display
February 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Law Firms, Legal Technology, and Telepresence - Teleconferencing Gets Ready for Prime Time
February 26, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Just shoot me
February 24, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
IOCOM rolls-out Hi Def Tele-presence Rooms for under $60K
February 24, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Organiser cancels March's TelePresence conference
February 24, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
HP says annual video conference room sales doubling
February 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Internet2 - Bandwidth on Demand for Video
February 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Videoconferencing use continues to rise
February 19, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Immersed in Work
February 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telcos broaden the range for managed telepresence
February 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Is Apple going to bring telepresence to the living room?
February 12, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Frame: A Black Box for Life Support Patients
February 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The future of remote medical consultations - Cisco's Telemedicine Research
February 7, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Holodeck 0.1: the durable, rewritable holographic display
February 7, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
BT- and Cisco-Sponsored Paper Says Sustainability Breeds Innovation and Profitability
February 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Dude, Where's My Fembot?
February 5, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Tandberg launches OCS integration for easy videoconferencing
February 4, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
HD technology to boost conferencing benefits
January 30, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Immersive Education Initiative Announces Education Grid
January 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Manufacturing Case Study: Using Telepresence For Long-Distance R&D
January 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Olympics powered by HD communication
January 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Gizmo: I am not a robot, I am your daddy
January 27, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
AUSTRALIA: 'Video conferencing on steroids' a giant leap for research
January 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Cameraphone used to control computers in 3D
January 23, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Self-Paced Brain-Computer Interface Gets Closer to Reality
January 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Japanese - 33 million pixel TV Standard
January 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
3-D Design for the Masses
January 22, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Get the full picture
January 18, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
Study: Why Europeans Will Aggressively Adopt Telepresence Services
January 17, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon Wins Landing Rights For U.S.- China Submarine Cable
January 16, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Presence of mind
January 15, 2008 | Howard Lichtman
Cisco, LifeSize, RadVision, Tandberg, Chambers Win Videoconferencing Insight's 2007 Recognition Awards - UPDATED
January 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
How Telepresence Changes The Video Conferencing Experience
January 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Leading the Charge to HD Telepresence - Interview with LifeSize CTO Casey King
January 14, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Your Future On The Big Screen
January 10, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
World's Smallest Projector Set for Launch
January 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Napkin PC Enables High-Tech Doodling
January 8, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The future of communication: for business and beyond
January 7, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Getting Real in Virtual Meetings
January 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini deploys expensive rollout of Cisco telepresence system
January 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
The Look and Feel of Telepresence, Part 1 & 2
January 2, 2008 | Chris Payatagool
Verizon Business Identifies Top 10 Hot Business Technology Trends for 2008
December 20, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Liberate your avatar
December 20, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Samsung: Next HDTV to Offer 8x Better Resolution
December 18, 2007 | John Serrao
Verizon Is Calling China, India Big Targets For Business Unit
December 18, 2007 | John Serrao
Tandberg takes telepresence to partners
November 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
The Planets Align for Telepresence
November 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom Opens New Development Center and Offices in India
November 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Endless Self-Reinvention in Virtual Worlds
November 28, 2007 | John Serrao
An Interview with Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty
November 26, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
John Chambers, virtual-world master
November 19, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
The Future of Telepresence: Better Than Being There
November 15, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Students brave the simulated seas
November 15, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
It's Telepresence
November 14, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Watch out Second Life: China launches virtual universe with seven million souls
November 14, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Telepresence Makes the "Top 10 Real Life Star Trek Inventions"
November 5, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco Shoots And Scores With NBA Deal
November 1, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco's display of strength
November 1, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
The future is here right now, if you can read the signs
October 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Local whiz speeds up broadband by 200 times
October 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Video search makes phone a 'second pair of eyes'
October 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
We will invest strongly in India: Chambers
October 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom HDX Series Named Top-Ranked High Definition Video Conferencing Solution
October 29, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
The Ferrari of videoconferencing
October 25, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Video Conferencing the Best or Worst Return on Investment You’ll Likely Ever Get
October 25, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
LifeSize launches cheap videoconferencing kit
October 25, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Multi-touch display can 'see' objects too
October 22, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
High-speed wireless video transfers 100X faster than WiFi on tap
October 22, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Virtual surgery becoming a reality
October 22, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Polycom Steps on the High Definition Gas
October 17, 2007 | John Serrao
2007 Engineer of the Year Finalist Michael Dhuey's Hardware Knowledge Helps Breathe Life Into iPod, TelePresence
October 16, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Cisco vs. Microsoft: Now videoconferencing is the battle turf
October 16, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
Technology Could Enable Computers To 'Read The Minds' Of Users
October 11, 2007 | Chris Payatagool
