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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Hauppauge, NY (PRWeb) January 12, 2007 -- IVCi, LLC (www.ivci.com), a leading integrator of enterprise collaboration solutions including video conferencing, audio visual integration, streaming, Web conferencing, and managed conferencing services, announced today that it has signed on with Accordent Technologies as a supplier of the company's award-winning enterprise rich media communications solutions.

Accordent provides effective solutions for real-time online communications, on- demand training, and learning initiatives within any type of organization, including:

• Distance learning, by extending a classroom or meeting experience for remote live online audiences;
• On-demand access to classroom and training content that has been recorded, allowing greater retention of critical training material, leading to a better educated student population or workforce;
• Training sessions that can be recorded in one location, and then leveraged throughout an entire organization, providing a consistent learning environment across global organizations;
• Content Management, the Accordent Media Management System is a web-based solution that enables administrators to effectively publish, manage, and measure the effectiveness of organization-wide rich media communications. The system also offers authorized users easy access to information and presentations.

"This solution greatly extends the value of our core offering, which includes video conferencing," said IVCi Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Charlie Macli. "Our customers will be able to use the video conferencing system as the capture device for streaming applications. In addition, Accordent provides editing capabilities, so the end result is professional-quality streaming content."

Accordent's standards-based technology seamlessly integrates with existing streaming and video conference infrastructure. A variety of corporate, education, and government clients have directly integrated major manufacturer video conferencing system feeds using the Accordent Capture Station, the company's turnkey capture appliance, and the Accordent Media Management System. These solutions deliver a content management and search portal for the streamed video conferences, as well as all Accordent-created rich media presentations.

"Our customers will be able to extend the utility of their live video conferences so that they can be simultaneously streamed to the Web and automatically archived for online retrieval," said IVCi President Bob Swing. "When integrated in the Accordent Media Management System, we can now deliver a unified communications portal for our clients that allows them to easily organize, search, and provide multi-layered access to all of their multimedia presentation assets."

The Accordent solution seamlessly captures the audio and video from lectures and presentations, synchronizes it with images captured from VGA sources, and converts it into an online rich media presentation. "No other device has this much enhancement or can provide as much in cost savings and productivity gains," said IVCi Sales Engineer Ed Cobos.

"We're proud to be working so closely with IVCi, not only because of their deep understanding of video conferencing technology, but also because of their exceptional footprint and reputation for delivering quality services," said Marc Haimsohn, Accordent vice president of Channel Development.

About IVCi:

IVCi, LLC (http://www.ivci.com | http://audiovisual.ivci.com) is a leading integrator of managed enterprise collaboration solutions, including video conferencing, audio visual and managed conferencing services. From our headquarters in Long Island, New York, and branch offices throughout the country, IVCi makes conferencing and audio visual solutions easy to use, easy to manage, and easy to afford.

About Accordent Technologies:

Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys, JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent's exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com.

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