Fellow blogger Andy Abramson has been covering SightSpeed a lot lately. SightSpeed offers a software based approach to video conferencing, much like Skype does for voice calling. The big difference is, that Skype is active in a consumer market, while SightSpeed mainly serves the business market. Seeing that most companies still prefer fixed handsets on their desks, they apparently aren’t so picky when it comes to video.
This week the Telepresence World conference will be held at the University of San Diego in California. You may be wondering what telepresence is and you wouldn’t be the only one. According to Wikipedia “Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.” It is supposed to “create a live, face-to-face meeting experience with remote participants life-size with fluid motion, accurate flesh-tones and flawless audio” according to Telepresence World. I would call it videoconferencing 2.0, for those on a somewhat larger budget.
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