First Come, First Serve Basis Free Video Conferencing for the Rest of Us

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
"Ride on the Next Plane of Existence" TM

Seoul, Korea (PRWEB) July 11, 2007 -- Zenitum Entertainment Computing ('Zenitum') announces new free video conferencing service with Web 2.0 spirit, PalBee (http://www.palbee.com).

Palbee.com offers unlimited free sessions of one hour video conferencing for maximum of five video attendees. PalBee currently provides a whiteboard, text chat, images and PowerPoint slides sharing features. Above all, since PalBee was developed using Flash technology, both PC and Mac users are able to engage in video conferencing without downloading or installing hassles whatsoever.

However, there is one catch. Current larva (beta) version supports only 10 video conference sessions at the same time, hence "first come, first serve." It would be upgraded to support up to 50 simultaneous sessions in mid-July. "We will continuously increase the capacity and bandwidth multiple folds to support more users," said Albert Kim, CEO and Founder of Zenitum, "Even then, free users have to come and create conference sessions first come, first serve basis."

For upcoming version, PalBee offers several new features such as session recording, and Web 2.0 widgets playing the recorded sessions on personal blogs or other social media sites. Also, billing mechanisms, including donation, would be added soon for "Customers to Customers (C2C)" knowledge marketplace such as tutoring, counseling or professional instructions.

"We originally developed PalBee for internal uses," Albert added. "We've invited professors and professionals around the world for getting lectures on advanced software engineering topics without spending too much money. I think many would have same benefits from our free video conferencing."

He also noted that finding individual instructors or tutors is not easy. However, since increasing number of people engage in online learning, or e-learning, C2C knowledge transactions would gradually increase likewise.

To sign up and start a video conference session, visit http://www.palbee.com

ABOUT ZENITUM ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, INC.

Zenitum is an entertainment solution developer based on computer vision technologies, and headquartered in Seoul, Korea. For three years, Zenitum has been developing unique services for both mobile and web such as "Face Beauty Surgery" and "Face Fortune Reading" based on face and facial feature recognition technology. Recently, Zenitum is launching Web 2.0 services harnessing its proprietary technologies.

For more information, please contact

Zenitum Entertainment Computing, Inc.

Albert Kim

CEO & Founder

+82-11-229-5083az

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