On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Adam Levin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, [email protected] wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> >>> Here's the requirement I need to satisfy: People need to be able to share >>> physical documents and/or whiteboard with each other in different states - >>> Am I not able to use something like skype or ooVoo? >> >> what I would suggest is to take a normal digital camera and take pictures of >> things with various resolutions and then look at the results. >> >> video conferencing software is probably _not_ the appropriate thing to use to >> transmit the images, that's aimed at low-res moving images and you need >> high(er)-res static images. you may be best off just e-mailing the pictures >> around or putting them on a web page. > > I can't speak to document cameras, but I can speak to whiteboards. > > I recently took some training where the instructor had a device called an > "ebeam capture". It's a little flying-saucer looking thing that goes in > the corner of a whiteboard. The markers go inside sleeves. The unit > connects via USB or bluetooth to your laptop. You configure the software > by tapping on the corners of the whiteboard opposite the mounted device. > > Then, you have a window on your desktop that records the written > marker-strokes as you write. It was a nifty device. I have no idea how > expensive it is, but anything you write is recorded and can be saved as an > image. You can share the whiteboard window via webex or any other sharing > software over the net.
if we are just talking whiteboards, take a look at the wii remote base whiteboard option. they let you point a pair of wii remotes at a projection screen and then use a IR LED pen to 'draw' on the projection screen. using a pair of wii remotes goes a long way towards handling the problem of having your body blocking their view (they communicate to your system via bluetooth) when the wii remotes see the IR light, the system gets a 'mouse down' event at that location (and mouse movement from there) so it works with any software. even works on linux ;-) David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
