New Audio and Web Conferencing Services Announced by IVCi

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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) August 19, 2008 -- IVCi, LLC (www.ivci.com), a leading integrator of enterprise collaboration solutions including high definition video conferencing, telepresence, audio visual integration, and managed conferencing services, today announced the enhancement of its audio and Web conferencing services.

Customers who have chosen IVCi's reliable, easy to use, and secure managed conferencing services for video and telepresence calls can now experience the same level of support for their audio and Web conferencing requirements.

"We are providing our customers a one-stop shop for all of their conferencing needs. Our high performance, feature rich, and secure audio and Web services not only deliver great value on their own, but are unique in that they can be added to our customers' video conferencing services. By managing all components of the conference, our in-house customer service team can eliminate noisy lines and disturbing parties without having to mute the entire audio bridge," said senior vice president of Managed Services, Chris Böttger. "In addition, our built-in security model notifies users if their account is being used fraudulently, which is something many large organizations fall victim to."

IVCi's new suite of competitively priced audio and Web conferencing services include:

IVCi Audio Conferencing

? Reservationless conferencing available 24 hours a day, everyday

? Unique conferencing service phone numbers

? Fully-featured conference facilities

Event Audio Conferencing

? An audio and Web conferencing service that is ideally suited to any size event, whether it is for investor relations calls, press and analyst briefings, internal training requirements, or company announcements

Glance Web Conferencing

? Desktop sharing and remote control with just one mouse click

? Simple design and easy to use interface

? Participants need only a standard web browser

Presenter Web Conferencing

? Feature rich application includes control and sharing, annotation, polling, recording, and built-in chat

? Show PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and more

? Work collaboratively in real time

For additional information about IVCi's new audio and Web conferencing services, call 1-800-224-7083, email us info@ivci.com, or visit us on the Web at www.ivci.com

About IVCi

IVCi, LLC (http://www.ivci.com | http://audiovisual.ivci.com) is a leading integrator of managed enterprise collaboration solutions, including high definition video conferencing, telepresence, audio visual and managed conference services. IVCi makes conferencing and audio visual solutions easy to use, easy to manage, and easy to afford.

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