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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…!

Visit the free Telepresence Forum for more information and discussion

Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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(PRWEB) June 19, 2007 -- HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the leader in high performance network video technology, today announces interoperability between the HaiVision hai1000 and Codian's HD MCU 4500 Series. HaiVision's low latency hai1000 video codec systems, used extensively in telepresence and high performance communications, have the seamless capability to communicate with traditional video conferencing endpoints through Codian's MCU 4500 Series family of multimedia conferencing bridges.

The interoperability is facilitated by HaiVision's Invitation™ technology based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and by both manufacturers' support of industry standard H.264 video compression and AAC audio compression.

"Invitation is what everyone involved in telepresence has been waiting for," expresses Peter Maag, Vice President of HaiVision. "Interoperability with Codian allows telepresence to take advantage of the videoconferencing fabric of an enterprise while retaining the true to life characteristics of the telepresence environment."

"Codian provides an unrivalled rich multimedia experience to users that want the ultimate in visual quality. The collaboration with HaiVision highlights how Codian's platform can be extended to address the very high-end HD requirements of modern telepresence systems," said Killko Caballero, Head of Strategic Alliances, Codian.

Invitation is a firmware module for HaiVision's hai1000 series. The hai1000 is a true multi-stream codec system capable of supporting 5 high performance encode decode pairs. With Invitation, superior quality communication between telepresence endpoints can be maintained while simultaneously introducing the traditional video conferencing devices.

Invitation is supported on the standard definition hai1000 systems and will support HaiVision's new MAKO-HD technology for high definition H.264 applications.

Come see HaiVision's launch of Invitation in booth 4846 and Codian in Booth 4646 at InfoComm in Anaheim, June 19-21.

About Codian
Codian is one of the fastest growing voice and visual communications companies in the world. With a rapidly growing global customer base, Codian is renowned for delivering quality customer service and satisfaction. Codian solutions offer unrivalled reliability and ease-of-use. Codian is proven to provide the best available voice and video quality for conferencing throughout an enterprise: in the boardroom, on the move and on the desktop. Furthermore, Codian's conferencing product family is unique in its ability to deliver a truly lifelike, interactive, telepresence-style, experience for all meeting participants.

About HaiVision Systems Inc.
HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private company dedicated to improving the way people live and work through the use of advanced network video technology. HaiVision's interactive products are used in the foremost telepresence suites, boardrooms, and continuous presence distance education systems worldwide. They are used as well in the medical field supporting information and service delivery within hospital campuses and across nations. HaiVision's streaming products are also used extensively for video backhaul and distribution in broadcast and IPTV applications. Please have a look at the product information, case studies, videos, and file samples available in the file download area of our web site.

For further information, please contact:

Ceicy Tsui               
HaiVision Systems Inc.   
Tel: (514) 334-5445, ext. 251           
Email: ctsui (at) haivision.com
Web: www.haivision.com

Hellene Garcia
Codian
Tel: (408) 938-2303   
Email: Hellene (at) codian.com
Web: www.codian.com

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