Video Conferencing

HP's Touchless touchscreen wall

16:29 January 26, 2010 PST

The HP Wall of Touch is made up of as many as nine 43 to 46-inch, 1080p panels

About a year ago, HP began working on a ginormous touchscreen display for their PR firm’s Manhattan offices. The resulting product, called the Wall of Touch, was such a hit that it has found its way into the workplaces of other select clients, with more on the way. Ironically, despite its name, one of the things that makes the Wall unique is that users don’t have to actually touch it. Read More

CHILDSPLAY

Storyplay: Nokia and Sesame Street create video conferencing in a book

By Paul Ridden

16:49 November 3, 2009 PST

Parent and child enjoying the Storybook experience

Nokia has teamed up with Sesame Street to create an interactive reading experience that can involve grandparents and grandchildren no matter how far apart they may find themselves. The Storybook research project melds the tactile and visual pleasures of reading a real book with video conferencing technology which allows distant relatives to take an active part in a child's literacy development. Read More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

HP’s SkyRoom makes videoconferencing easy (and cheap)

By Jude Garvey

01:57 September 30, 2009 PDT

HP SkyRoom videoconferencing allows users to collaborate quickly, easily and at a minimum ...

At the risk of sounding antiquated, it doesn’t seem so long ago that a face-to-face business meeting involved one or both parties having to jump on an airplane. Teleconferencing helped a little but video conferencing certainly changed the way we do business - although the expense often meant that it was used sparingly. HP has just introduced new videoconferencing software that it claims is not only high-definition and offers live-real-time collaboration, it is also affordable and has no subscription fees. Read More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Facevsion's FXexpress Pro brings 1080p video conferencing to the mass market

By Gizmag Team

06:37 September 13, 2009 PDT

Full HD video conferencing has been available for some time - provided you can afford to spend over $20,000 on a product like Cisco's TelePresence 500. Until now that is. FaceVsion's FXexpress Pro is an ExpressCard-based hardware accelerator with an HDMI input, capable of encoding and decoding 1080p H.264 video at 30 frames per second in real-time for 1080p video conferencing - and it's available for under $200. Gizmag's Tim Hanlon talked to Facevsion at IFA 2009 - click through for the video. Read More