By Bob Titsch Scott Charter, managing partner of WBS Connect , wants to "smash preconceptions" about video conferencing, and he's off to a good start. The company's new Virtual In Person high-definition video conferencing and telepresence product drew a lot of attention at the recent IT Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. The vendor's booth was mobbed for most of the show because its display was, in a word, amazing. In fact, it won "best booth" at the show. The booth hosted two high-definition telepresence setups -a 52-inch large screen and 30-inch desktop workstation version. The big screen demonstration projected a live video conference over the company's IP network and "global gateway" for telepresence. The picture quality of the big screen product impressed onlookers, especially when they were asked to shake hands with the person on the other end. Indeed, the 3-D effect of the video conference put observers in close "virtual" proximity to the person on the other side, making a handshake seem feasible when said person extended a hand. Observers conversed and made eye contact with the WBS Connect employee on the other end and walked away astonished in many instances. WBS Connect is using video equipment from Vidyo , which employs the H.264-SVC (scalable video coding) codec, and its own carrier-class IP network to deliver a first-of-its-kind "global gateway" for telepresence, according to Charter. He says this global gateway will connec ...
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By Bob Titsch Scott Charter, managing partner of WBS Connect , wants to "smash preconceptions" about video conferencing, and he's off to a good start. The company's new Virtual In Person high-definition video conferencing and telepresence product drew a lot of attention at the recent IT Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. The vendor's booth was mobbed for most of the show because its display was, in a word, amazing. In fact, it won "best booth" at the show. The booth hosted two high-definition telepresence setups -a 52-inch large screen and 30-inch desktop workstation version. The big screen demonstration projected a live video conference over the company's IP network and "global gateway" for telepresence. The picture quality of the big screen product impressed onlookers, especially when they were asked to shake hands with the person on the other end. Indeed, the 3-D effect of the video conference put observers in close "virtual" proximity to the person on the other side, making a handshake seem feasible when said person extended a hand. Observers conversed and made eye contact with the WBS Connect employee on the other end and walked away astonished in many instances. WBS Connect is using video equipment from Vidyo , which employs the H.264-SVC (scalable video coding) codec, and its own carrier-class IP network to deliver a first-of-its-kind "global gateway" for telepresence, according to Charter. He says this global gateway will connec ...