Normal people will never understand how much a phone call or zoom call drains the energy of a visual learner introvert. That little phrase at the end of an email “great, when can we meet to discuss it?” And there…
Category: telepresence
Welcome to my world – Work from home tips from a veteran
With “shelter in place” orders here in the Bay Area, companies are scrambling to support and enable employees working from home. If you’ve never done it before, or only work from home occasionally, it is a lot different when it’s…
Video conferencing industry poised for disruption?
As many of you know, my views on video conferencing are contrary, if not downright sacrilegious. Those views come from deep reflective research, the kind of research that gives you an answer other than the one you wanted, but you can’t ignore…
Whitepaper provides unconventional perspective on “videoconferencing”
I have released a brief whitepaper summarizing my contrary position with respect to “videoconferencing”. The paper is titled: Practical Applications of Low-cost Network-Based Video: Beyond Videoconferencing as a Substitute for Face-To-Face and is available at the following link: http://www.toyz.org/whitepapers/video_social2009.html This…
More unconventional video wisdom
Tsahi Levent-Levi at the TMC Talking Video blog refers to my recent post on video in which he says: Andrew MacDonald tried to see what’s his perceived audio quality threshold. He shows that improving audio quality improves the medium and…
iSpykee – Open-source Spykee for iPhone
I finally finished making my previously mentioned iPhone hack for Spykee into a form I could release for public consumption. It’s still not perfect, but at least I’ve removed external dependencies so it can be installed without too much difficulty.…
Update on my eComm presentation
This has not made it to the eComm site yet, but here’s what my 5-minute lightning talk will be about: Mobile phones are practically ubiquitous. Everyone carries them and most of them are turned on and connected 24×7. Today’s mobile…
Not so startling Cisco research on video
A tweet from Dina Mehta via Mark Petrovic pointed me to an article titled The psychology of videoconferencing that refers to some research Cisco recently released. Cisco says: [research published in 1971] revealed that only seven per cent of our…
Spykee iPhone Hack
At left you’ll see my first cut at a rudimentary Spykee mini-console for iPhone. If you’re familiar with the standard PC or Mac Spykee console app, you’ll recognize many of the functions. This app only implements a sub-set of the…
Spykee wi-fi robot – first looks
I saw the Spykee robot at Costco and so I went home and researched what it was all about. Then I decided to run back to Costco and pick one up before the US supply runs out. It was $229.99…
