Videoconferencing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Videoconferencing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I live in Tokyo, Japan with my family in Tokyo and in the U.S. New Jersey, Maine, Florida,and Colorado. We’re spread out, seeing the world. But I do want to see them sometimes so getting us together can take a momentous event. It does happen but not often enough. My idea is for everyone to get online with a webcam and just video conference once in awhile. I have a webcam but noone to talk to, sounds sad. I’ve tried to convince the to get a webcam (nowadays they’re so cheap). I’ve included some text from the article I linked to, maybe I can get something started. This blog is about conversation and ecology, I can’t think of anything less wasteful then video conferencing.
Video conferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple as a conversation between two people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several sites (multi-point) with more than one person in large rooms at different sites. Besides the audio and visual transmission of people, video conferencing can be used to share documents, computer-displayed information, and whiteboards.
Simple analog videoconferences could be established as early as the invention of the television. Such videoconferencing systems consisted of two closed-circuit television systems connected via cable. During the first manned space flights, NASA used two radiofrequency (UHF or VHF) links, one in each direction. TV channels routinely use this kind of videoconferencing when reporting from distant locations, for instance. Then mobile links to satellites using special trucks became rather common.Video conferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple as a conversation between two people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several sites (multi-point) with more than one person in large rooms at different sites. Besides the audio and visual transmission of people, video conferencing can be used to share documents, computer-displayed information, and whiteboards.
Simple analog videoconferences could be established as early as the invention of the television. Such videoconferencing systems consisted of two closed-circuit television systems connected via cable. During the first manned space flights, NASA used two radiofrequency (UHF or VHF) links, one in each direction. TV channels routinely use this kind of videoconferencing when reporting from distant locations, for instance. Then mobile links to satellites using special trucks became rather common.
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