Rony, On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > There is an advt. of CISCO where a group of people from China and Some > European country come face to face virtually on huge screens. Is this > really possible or just trick photography? If possible, it would not > only help in overseas conferencing but also in huge office complexes > where one has to travel a long distance or even a few floors to get to > the boss's cabin or some place else. The normal video conferencing has a > very small screen where one cannot even move one's head or it would get > out of the visible area. With high resolution videos, a huge life size > image is possible and groups of people can talk to each other. It has a > fantastic effect and looks really good. >
Not sure what advt you have seen, but I have seen an review about this on some techshow, maybe it was clickonline or something, about a year back. Its not a gimmick. The intended customer base is the jetsetting CEOs and such so that they can save time and monies on air travel thus reducing some carbon footprint as well. The whole setup costs a bomb. Btw, thats not the end of their products and research. Remember holo-deck from star trek days? They have successfully done that :). It was demoed at the Cisco engineer meeting in Bangalore or some such [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrjwKEzRhFI Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
