Lifesize to offer Videoconferencing on the Cloud
LifeSize announced it’s new video collaboration platfrom – LifeSize Connections.
LifeSize connections will offer HD video calling with full connectivity to LifeSize video conferencing rooms, [Read more...]
Industry News Summary – LifeSize, Kinect Chat, Telepresence Guide & More
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Telepresence Trends – 2011
June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you haven’t read the ‘Telepresence and Visual Collaboration Trends 2011‘ article on Telepresence Options – You should. Howard Lichtman, the president of the Human Productivity Lab gives a complete overview of recents trends in the Telepresence market: [Read more...]
Opinion: What Is the True meaning of Telepresence?
May 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’ve recently read an article about the ‘True definition of Telepresence’. Rob Bamforth, an analyst for Quocirca, tried to advance the notion that Telepresence isn’t about big screens or costly systems – it’s about the illusion of being there. [Read more...]
Concerts of the 21th Century – Via Telepresence?
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Broadcasting music performances over video-conferencing equipment isn’t new – Polycom, Cisco, DVE has been experimenting with it for years. It is only recently that Telepresence became mature enough for concert streaming. The key challenge with Telepresence concerts isn’t a technology one, it’s entirely a business issue. Telepresence concerts must offer something new in order to attract artists and record labels. Among the key points in favor of Telepresence concerts are: [Read more...]
Industry News – Umi Interop, RCS-e, Skype & Panasonic and more
March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cisco Umi Interoperability
Cisco announced that it’s Home Telepresence offering – Umi, will be interoperatable with ‘Umi-Connect‘ – A umi software client for Mac and PC and Cisco’s professional Telepresence systems.
This announcement puts Umi in a whole different perspective, as Umi can now be used for business purposes, i.e – home workers.
In addition, Cisco revelaed a new 720P only version, for a cheaper $399 price and lowered the monthly fee (for a yearly plan) to 9.95$ a month from 24.99$ a month.
Lack of interoperability and high ownership cost were major points of criticism when Cisco introduce Umi and it remains to be seen how this latest move will improve Umi acceptance in home and SOHO markets.
3G4G blog posted a short article about RCS (or in it’s latest form – RCS-e)
The article gives a good overview of what RCS is, and is a recommended read. Back in July 2010 we interviewed Jose M.Recio from Solaimes about RCS and it’s relevancy in the age of the smartphone – As it seems, it’s still is.
Panasonic Viera Blu-ray players to include Skype
Panasonic announced Skype support for it’s new blu-ray player line (2011). Video-Chat will be supported via the Freetalk Conference Camera, which will cost 99$ and be available starting this month.
Spectrume Reform Legistlation
US Senators Olympia Snowe and John Kerry recently introduced the Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and Opportunistic Sharing (RADIOS) Act. The proposed RADIOS Act aims to provide FCC and NTIA detailed information needed for smarter allocation of the Radio spectrum.
LTE sprint
Spirt is one of the few operators in USA that use CDMA for voice and data connectivity – Steve Elfman, Sprint’s president of network operations said that the company will make a decision regarding LTE in mid-year, however if Sprint does decide to use LTE it could be deployed by year-end 2013.
