The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay I really liked Tsahi’s post on the “science fiction version” of telepresence. I have to admit I am an avid sci-fi fan myself, although I find less and less time for books these days. The idea for this post came on the very day I did a cool presentation for a distinguished guest on innovation. And while working on it, I found myself going back to
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 6th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation
I’ve been writing about innovation here for a long time. Last week I discussed (more so – complained about) the lack of innovation in the video conferencing experience in the past few years. Well, in this post I will be much more optimistic, and tell you a bit about the state-of-the-art in video conferencing innovation, a project that RADVISION is proud to take part in: 3DPresence. Einat Yellin, who leads the 3DPresence development effort in RADVISION, was more than happy
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 20th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
Video conferencing is reaching out to everyone, including the desktop. Still I am often confronted with the fact that video conferencing has been “the NEXT big thing” for more than a decade, and has yet to become a truly popular means of communication (like, for instance, the mobile phone). Researchers have found that there are a few problems – primarily psychological – that may explain the slow penetration of video conferencing into our lives, and also the reluctance of many
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 27th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
