Video conferencing at 35,000 feet with iChat AV
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iChat AV, AIM updates add Mac to PC
video conferencing
iChat AV, AIM updates add Mac to PC
video conferencing
02/10/2004 02:43 AMApple Computer Inc. and America Online Inc. on Thursday announced a
new level of compatibility between the companies' instant messaging
applications, iChat AV and AIM 5.5 for the PC. With updates released
today PC and Mac users will enjoy the benefit of video conferencing
between the two platforms. One industry analyst said today that Apple
stands to benefit greatly from the relations as it moves out of its
niche market.
iChat AV 2.1 adds Windows Video
Conferencing Support
iChat AV 2.1 adds Windows Video
Conferencing Support
02/10/2004 02:52 AM
Apple released iChat AV 2.1 today.What's New in iChat AV 2.1 Public
Beta
iChat AV v2.1 Public Beta adds support for video conferencing with the
AOL I...
New Video Conferencing Resource Site
Launches, Offers Thousands of Free
Resources for Video Conferencing
New Video Conferencing Resource Site
Launches, Offers Thousands of Free
Resources for Video Conferencing
02/01/2005 09:57 PMNew website organizes thousands of video conferencing links for
consumer’s benefit and convenience. Users can quickly navigate
thousands of relevant sites for free. [PRWEB Jan 24, 2005]
iChat AV at 35,000 Feet
iChat AV at 35,000 Feet
06/23/2004 10:29 PMIt’s a long flight from Munich to San Francisco, even non-stop.
But recently two enterprising Apple product managers cut the distance
dramatically with a few at-hand tools: iChat AV, iSight, 17-inch
PowerBook G4, a Boeing 777 and an orbiting satellite. [Jun 23]
Apple - Hot News - iChat AV at 35,000
Feet
Apple - Hot News - iChat AV at 35,000
Feet
06/25/2004 12:55 AMvideoconferenced with a coworker in Cupertino .. iChat AV at 35,000
Feet .. really taking
off
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Cisco gets into video conferencing
Cisco gets into video conferencing
02/19/2004 11:20 AMSound and vision
"video conferencing plugin"
"video conferencing plugin"
06/05/2005 11:45 PMBright future for video conferencing
Bright future for video conferencing
06/12/2004 01:37 AMSunday Times South Africa Jun 12 2004 5:18AM GMT
Solving the "what you're looking at"
problem with Video Conferencing
Solving the "what you're looking at"
problem with Video Conferencing
06/30/2004 11:07 AM
Great article
in the Beeb News about a research project which is actually
reaping great benefits.
For years - I believe one of the things holding up video
conferencing was that the viewer sees the other person either looking
up or to the see - there's no eye contact, as the camera on the others
side is NOT the screen. This creates a very disturbing anomaly that
(IMHO) has prevented everyone but very geeky people to utilize this
breakthrough technology.
So now.......
i2i, in development at Microsoft's research lab in
Cambridge, UK, is a two-camera system which very carefully follows an
individual's movement.
It uses a specially developed algorithm to fuse what each camera
sees to create an accurate stereo "cyclopean" image.
This means it looks as if users are looking each other in the eye.
It can also display floating 3D emoticons.
"We were able to come up with an algorithm that was able to take
two images and capture a corresponding map in 3D," said Antonio
Criminisi, lead researcher of Microsoft's Machine Learning and
Perception Group.
"Using this powerful technology, we can now synthetically create an
image as if the person is looking at you."
I don't necessarily buy the synthetic character angle, but just
getting cameras to show you eye contact is huge....
So whwther or not thsi works - will depend on the issue of "are
peopel willing to trade off and NOT see teh actual human (but a
synthetic one) - all for the purpos eof seeing that person - in the
eye.
But WAIT@! It's a synthetic person, so why....
[via techdirt]
Hollywood meets Video Conferencing
Hollywood meets Video Conferencing
06/16/2004 02:01 AM
Since I haven't used any videochat software, let alone multiway
video conferencing
system (MVCS), I am not sure if a brief inspiration I had this
afternoon is implemented
or not. The inspiration was to enhance the MVCS experience by
emulating what
movie directors do to help the audience follow conversations in
movies. It's
Hollywood meets video conferencing.
This is how I see the system working. When a person (A)
speaks, the view changes
to A. When another person (B) breaks in, the view switches to
B, but the view
will briefly switch back to (A) several times while B is
speaking. When
B finishes, the view switches back to A. When A doesn't
respond immediately,
the view switches to show other attendents intelligently.The intent
here
is to catch the facial reactions to weave the conversations
into a drama so the
system remembers the interaction history like who spoke when, in
reaction to whom,
for how long, etc. When two people talk at the same
time, the screen is
divided into two parts to minimize the ping-pong effect.
Questions are also
detected and 'the camera' scans the likely 'suspects' for
reactions.
Brief overlaying of textual information about the person on the
screen commonly seen
in detective TV shows should be also useful when participants are
not familiar with
each other (i.e. community meeting with 1000 attendents).
It's smartly done
based on whether it helps the viewer or not.
Lastly and appropriately going overboard, dramatic sounds can be
injected either automatically
or by participants like sounds of suspense or those funny sounds
talkshow DJs like
to use (video-smileys?). Appropriate video clips (i.e. Three
Stooges or Groucho
Marx) can also be injected similarly by the moderator or
attendence.
While I think it is unlikely someone haven't thought of this
before, I thought the
idea was interesting enough to share, just in case.
DOT.COM Provides Free Video Conferencing
for Troops and Their Families
DOT.COM Provides Free Video Conferencing
for Troops and Their Families
05/31/2004 01:51 PMNorthWest eSolutions, www.nwesolutions.com, and Club 555 Networks,
Inc. launches a new webservice featuring web-based video conferencing
free for troops and their families. [PRWEB May 31, 2004]
Facetop: Shared Desktop/Video
Conferencing
Facetop: Shared Desktop/Video
Conferencing
07/09/2004 03:09 PMLog out of AIM while in iChat video chat
Log out of AIM while in iChat video chat
09/23/2004 11:08 AMWell having a chat with a friend of mine, I discovered that you can
log off (by choosing Offline from the Status bar) while you're having
a video chat. This keeps the video chat active, but signs you off of
AIM, so that nobod...
PC Monitor with built-in Polycom Video
Conferencing - VSX 3000
PC Monitor with built-in Polycom Video
Conferencing - VSX 3000
05/30/2004 01:23 PMI4U May 30 2004 4:27PM GMT
Nokia launches clamshell trio, snubs 3G
video conferencing
Nokia launches clamshell trio, snubs 3G
video conferencing
06/14/2004 05:20 AMCNET Asia Jun 14 2004 8:58AM GMT
VOIP, Video-Conferencing Apps Face
Security Risk
VOIP, Video-Conferencing Apps Face
Security Risk
01/16/2004 10:57 AMAIM — Video Messaging Compatible With
iChat AV
AIM — Video Messaging Compatible With
iChat AV
02/10/2004 03:00 AMAn AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) upgrade offers new features including
live video instant messaging compatible with iChat AV video
conferencing, account linking and online games. [Feb 5]
Video-conferencing, Fast Downloads And
More. 3g Phones Hold Great Promise But
Video-conferencing, Fast Downloads And
More. 3g Phones Hold Great Promise But
09/26/2004 01:20 PMElectric New Paper Sep 26 2004 5:43PM GMT
iChat Beta Links with AIM for Video
Messaging
iChat Beta Links with AIM for Video
Messaging
02/10/2004 02:47 AM78% of US audio conferencing minutes to
go to short-notice conferencing
78% of US audio conferencing minutes to
go to short-notice conferencing
03/14/2005 06:24 PMZDNet Mar 14 2005 9:48PM GMT
Square Feet
Square Feet
01/19/2004 03:56 AM[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm
going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.]
After the place I saw the other day, I got to wondering how big my
apartment really is. The place I saw was in the 1,500 square feet
ballpark and just didn't feel very big. It seemed that I had quite a
bit more room in my old 1,400 square foot house back in...
Logging On at 30,000 Feet
Logging On at 30,000 Feet
08/07/2004 03:47 PMIn May, Lufthansa introduced the first full-feature, in-flight
Internet service for travelers.
MTV gets cold feet, or does it?
MTV gets cold feet, or does it?
05/27/2004 06:12 AM
This turns into one of those cases where researching a story gets
weirder. The documentary
Supe
r Size Me centers on a documentary filmmaker's 30 day experience
eating nothing but McDonalds. The film is doing
amazingly well
as a limited release documentary grossing more per screen than
high-budget Troy. Here is the weird part, Reuters has
picked up on a distributor
press release claiming that MTV is refusing to air advertising for
Super Size Me because the film is "disparaging to
fast-food restaurants". The Reuters short seems to have quite a
bit of legs. However a Hollywood Reporter
article details MTVs side of the story placing
the blame on the film's distributor. Is this really a case of a
network getting cold feet? Or is it a case of distributor trying to
pull the "too edgy for MTV" moneymaking ploy? And what is
with the continually morphing Reuters clip that is just now being
tossed onto doorsteps and stuffed into newsboxes across North America?
(The film was previously discussed on metafilter
back in January. Bare feet?
Bare feet?
06/21/2004 06:13 AM
Mindy wonders if anybody would notice if she took her
shoes off at work (in Finnish). In the spirit of scientific
exploration, I took my shoes and socks off to check what would happen.
So far it's been 15 minutes, and at least one person went by without
saying anything (though she did wonder why I did not want to go to
lunch yet.) I will keep you updated.
(Oh yeah, and my coworkers reading this weblog: it does not count if
you read it from here first. So nyah.)
30 minutes: I'm feeling a slight chill. I'm trying to wiggle my toes
to keep them warm.
60 minutes: Close to an hour. My feet are definitely getting cold. I
wonder if there's "email yoga"? (By the way - I have about
four Gmail invitations left, so if you want to test drive it, drop me
some email.)
100 minutes: I'll now attempt to go to the toilet. Wish me luck.'
102 minutes: back. Nothing.
How to keep your sanity at 30,000 feet
How to keep your sanity at 30,000 feet
05/18/2004 08:57 PMZDNet May 19 2004 1:06AM GMT
No More Cold Feet
No More Cold Feet
04/12/2005 02:48 PMRebelscum reader magic26 writes in:
Today at my Wal-Mart, I found this great display...Only bad part there
only kids size shoes....Yet another reason to bow at the feet of
the BBC
Yet another reason to bow at the feet of
the BBC
06/27/2004 06:21 AMSo, having spent this morning looking for, and not finding, a torrent
of a zero-day screener rip of Fahrenheit 9/11 (and if that sentence
isn't a sign of Life In The Future, I don't know what is), I'd almost
given...
Six Feet Under Season 3
Six Feet Under Season 3
03/11/2003 11:49 AMSix Feet Under - Season 3...
Agony of the Feet
Agony of the Feet
03/08/2004 11:23 PMPunitive Shoes are produced by sadistic Italian craftsman for women
who combine a sense of fashion with tolerance for pain. Perfect for
people who'd like to recreate the
"blood on the
shoe" version of Cinderella. (03-07)
Two feet from Soros
Two feet from Soros
03/14/2005 05:40 PMDavid Isenberg has photographic evidence that, unbeknownst to me, had
George Soros sneezed as Ethan Zuckerman was talking at the Safer
Democracy conference, I would have been mopping major philanthropic
fluids from my pate. Damn! That's like taking a taxi ride and only
finding out afterwards that you were sharing the cab with Mick Jagger.
(Btw, that's privacy maestro Marc Rotenberg next to Soros.)...
"347 square feet?"
"347 square feet?"
07/07/2004 09:30 AMZen of Conferencing
Zen of Conferencing
04/13/2005 11:14 AMDavid Weinberger: Gotta love the Blogher conference’s idea of a
“do-ocracy”: Want to get a topic on the agenda of this one
day event? Do it! And the political philosophy behind this: "How
do you subvert the dominant hierarchy? You give up control." +1
Thirty seven feet and two inches
Thirty seven feet and two inches
07/13/2004 01:39 AM
Hungry? How about a 37'2" hotdog? Vienna Beef was proud
to feature this record breaker at
Taste of
Chicago earlier this month. More info over at
MeatNews. Can't get enough hot dog action? Surely you saw
Kobayashi<
/a> chow
down on ESPN 2. Still hungry?
This ought to
fill you up.
(Note: Some of these links have gross
pictures) SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet
SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet
12/17/2003 07:14 PMehartwell writes "According to Space.com, Scaled Composite's
SpaceShipOne flew its first rocket-powered flight today, the 100th
anniversary of the Wright ...
Antigravity has feet of clay
Antigravity has feet of clay
02/05/2005 09:26 PMThanks to Gnomie Paul Wright for this item. Space agency report is a
downer for gravity-control researchers. “Could astronauts take a
leaf out of H. G. Wells’s book The First Men in the Moon, and
use spacecraft propelled by antigravity devices? Some see the idea as
science fiction, but major space agencies take it seriously. In 2001,
the European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned two scientists to
evaluate schemes for gravity control. They have concluded that,…
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has feet of clay'
The earth isn't moving under their feet
just yet
The earth isn't moving under their feet
just yet
07/26/2004 04:05 PMI've been dragging my feet across my
back
I've been dragging my feet across my
back
08/19/2004 12:45 AMThe TMBG show on Saturday was flippin' sweet. We got there a bit early
to enjoy some okonomiyaki at Izumi-ya,...
Made it to 14,000 feet today!
Made it to 14,000 feet today!
12/19/2002 06:40 PMNormally, I won't post all my flying stuff here (most people who read
my blog are into computer geeky stuff, not flying geeky stuff--at
least I think so), but I wanted to mention that I had a blast flying
this...
Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet
Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet
07/14/2004 01:25 PMGrok Description matches for Video conferencing at 35,000 feet with iChat AV
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