I'm working at home today because it's easier to write outside the office, but there was a really interesting guest speaker at the Institute today. So Alex and I are playing with some tele-presence tools.
What I've got running:
- Conference call bridge (for zero-latency audio)
- iChat video session (for low-res video)
- a couple of iChat IM windows
- a PBOX browser window (for Powerpoint slides) - an experimental technology we are testing for Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Labs.
I feel like I'm pretty much there. I'm getting something from each of the channels. Most suprising though, it seems that if I have the slides, the video feed is almost totally useless. It's just - literally - a talking head. It's the least useful of the channels right now, which I definitely did not expect. Explains why video phones never took off, I suppose.
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