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Video Conference and Telepresence Innovations
Video Conference and Telepresence Innovations
Remote technology makes global collaboration possible, and the internet makes it easy.

Item 10 Sonance Invisible Speakers: Sonance Invisible Speakers make if possible to satisfy both conference room designers and AV engineers. They install into any wood or metal stud construction and become part of the walls or ceiling. Planar diaphragms allow them to radiate sound through 140-degrees without loss of bandwidth. They can be painted or textured to match any décor. After installation they are simply mudded and sanded into the drywall.
Item 9 Sennheiser MO 2000 Optical Microphone: If money is no object and security is a concern, Sennheiser produces a microphone that does away with copper wire and electrical fields entirely. Eavesdropping is much more difficult with fiber optics and the typical interference generated by cell phones is also eliminated. Optical microphones are an important advance for potentially explosive environments and instruments like CAT scanners, but the time may come when government security regulation require them.
Item 8 Anybots QA Telepresence Robot: What if you can’t make a meeting or conference? Anybot’s slightly creepy QA offers a solution. The QA can travel around a remote site at six miles per hour, using laser radar to avoid obstacles while seeing, hearing and talking to others via a wireless connection through any Mac or PC. It even has a built-in laser pointer.
Item 7 Pixavi Xcaster Wireless Camera: Bluetooth and WiFi allow Pixavi’s XCaster ST5000 to take the video conference out of the conference room. It offers HD video and 16 gigabytes of flash memory, as well as six hours of battery life. There is even a satellite link for those hard-to-reach areas.
Item 6 GoToMeeting: Citrix Online has several remote products, and GoToMeeting allows internet users to meet, collaborate, and give sales presentations, or conduct online training from the comfort of their PC or Mac. For $50 a month, users can host unlimited meetings with up to 15 attendees. The Corporate version will handle 25 participants and includes VoIP integration. Webinars can have 1,000 attendees.
Item 5 Teliris VirtuaLive: With the motto, “Simpler is Smarter,” Teliris offers client-server solutions that use existing networks and far less bandwidth. Teliris’ InterACT hardware is unique: “The multi-touch virtual table / wall understands participant gestures and supports a wide variety of content including video, text, photos and audio files, without using keyboard or mouse.”
Item 4 HP Halo: HP can reduce your carbon footprint by creating a telepresence studio for you on its own private network. With help from Dreamworks Animation, Halo is a global, end-to-end solution managed for you by HP. Tandberg system interoperability is a recent addition. It even comes with 24x7 concierge support.
Item 3 Skype: Skype seems to be proof that the best things in life are free. Its software costs nothing and makes it possible to call other Skype users for free with an internet connection. Even video calls are free. The online phone number can be forwarded for a small fee and calls to cell phones and land lines are similarly cheap. Text messaging and voicemail are available. About the only thing it won’t do is make 911 calls.
Item 2 WebEx: Like Citrix’s GoToMeeting, Cisco’s WebEx is an online tool for meetings and online collaboration. As many IT Support people know, it is also a quick simple remote connection to vendors like Microsoft when servers and desktops are misbehaving. Desktop sharing lets help a half a world away see what is wrong and even control the mouse and keyboard to fix it.
Item 1 Cisco TelePresence: Cisco isn’t just providing hardware and software tools for the enterprise anymore - it is offering a telepresence solution that uses Cisco’s own private network. Cisco Telepresence boasts the most endpoints and applications of any supplier. Cisco offers the reliability of its network, interoperability with other hardware and integration with tools like its WebEx product.


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