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The Benefits Of Audio Conferencing
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Web And Video Conferencing: Who's Using This New Technology?
In the mid 1990s a few individuals and companies, seeing the potential of the relatively unknown Internet, took advantage of this new medium and got a head start on everyone else. Similarly, today a few innovative companies have enthusiastically embraced ...




Computers and Web Cams are Taking Communication to Levels Only Imagined in Sci-Fi Novels
 


One of the most incredible inventions I’ve ever come across is the web cam and its process of video conferencing. This is just so futuristic I can’t believe they really exist and are readily available to anyone with the Internet, speakers, and the right software. I’m not absolutely sure but doesn’t this spell the end of telephones? Now we can have conversations with people on the other side of the world, and see their face moving as we hear them speaking live.


Picture this: You’re an Antarctic explorer on a solo journey in the middle of the ice and snow on your way to the South Pole. The only living creatures around are the slippery penguins sliding around having fun. You’re in your special tent keeping safe from the intense wind from the blizzard outside. As you boil up water on your portable stove you flip open your laptop (with battery recharger, broadband Internet, and in-built speakers) and connect with your family back in Russia. You can see their smiles as you hear them speak. What a magical connection!


Another great aspect of video conferencing is the fact that you can communicate with whole groups of people at once either through networking a group of computers or by form of broadcast. This is a huge step forward for both companies and for schools. I’ve heard corporations have saved a lot of money and time, and students are enjoying learning this way much more than from a textbook. Informed people can talk to classes and help them learn, where otherwise they wouldn’t be able to because of time and distance restrictions. This is also a bonus for children who have different learning styles. E.G. The more visual types who understand better when they can see what they’re working with.


Feasibly, a surgeon in Japan could watch an operation in Australia and even ask the doctor in progress questions about procedures. It’s obvious that video conferencing will both help humans evolve further through the sharing of knowledge as well as keep loved ones more connected when they are far from home.


A lot of people who are either fascinated or obsessed with sex will also tell you about the benefits of this technology for their voyeuristic purposes, but I’m not going to go there. Science Fiction has once again turned to reality, and I hope we can truly make the most of this invention created by humans who wish to make society a better place.






Jesse S. Somer - M6.Net - http://www.m6.net
Jesse S. Somer is a simple human hoping to show others like him about the positive vibe the Internet is creating in people all over the world.

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Citrix buys high-def video conferencing player
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Nov 18, 2008
GoToMeeting can blend audio and videoconferencing with collaboration tools including desktop sharing and chat. It also supports application sharing, ...

Videoconferencing alive and well in the NHS
bjhcim, UK - 19 hours ago
The King’s Fund Report also envisages the use of videoconferencing for medical consultations; in Northern Ireland the future is already here. ...

Harborview Medical Center Improves Patient Care for Non-English ...
MarketWatch - 22 hours ago
Real-time videoconferencing sessions enable doctors to "virtually" bring interpreters into the office to help diagnose and treat patients in a fraction of ...

Amherstburg Family Health Team receives videoconferencing initiative
Amherstburg Echo,  Canada - 20 hours ago
OTN helps deliver clinical care between health care providers and patients via two-way videoconferencing systems and tele-diagnostic instruments like ...

The Whitlock Group Achieves IOCOM Preferred Affiliate Status
MarketWatch - Nov 18, 2008
The Whitlock Group is one of the nation's largest systems integration firms focused on audiovisual, videoconferencing, video-production, broadcast, ...

Photos: KT-Tech Debuts KTvid: Live, Real-Time, 2-Way Video Chat ...
SYS-CON Media, NJ - 20 hours ago
Person-to-person videoconferencing on today's narrow-bandwidth 2.5G cellular networks [No need for 3G]. Video chat on mobile devices and cell phones powered ...

Pow wow, here and now
CRN - UK, UK - 8 minutes ago
Organisations seeking to cut costs are accelerating their adoption of videoconferencing technologies, according to vendors. Kris Davies, managing director ...

Meet Via Video
Entrepreneur - 16 hours ago
But he overcame the hurdle by using his company's own next-generation videoconferencing technology to start conducting regular staff meetings between its ...

Injured county official still in touch, from home
San Antonio Express, TX - 6 hours ago
Elizondo could see and hear everything happening at the meeting via videoconferencing. And those at the courthouse had a view of Elizondo — complete with an ...

Expensive telepresence systems create a face-to-face illusion, but ...
GCN.com, DC - 18 hours ago
By David Essex, Special to GCN VIDEOCONFERENCING, once a privilege used by military commanders and agency executives, has gone mainstream. ...