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…
Tag: telepresence
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…
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…
Videoconferencing predictions past and present
This week we’ve seen many references to “recently released” research suggesting that videoconferencing may finally be ready to take off. Videoconferencing – a much talked about, but seldom-used technology – may finally be earning its spurs within the enterprise. 85…
FYI: Telepresence is not “new”
Cisco is pushing Telepresence hard as “the next big thing” and a lot of people are buying into the hype and referring to it in language like “new” and “next generation” technology. I have news for you. Telepresence has been…
