Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Vidyo: My Next New Favorite Ap - Personal Telepresence

Cisco telepresence, HP Halo? These are the telepresence (i.e. high resolution, life-sized video conferencing applications) aps to the Stars of American Business. But for you and me - ordinary folks - there's now an almost equally good offering as well: Vidyo.

While a Cisco telepresence room costs $300,000 to setup and install and $300,000 in monthly network fees over two years, Vidyo costs only $99 a month for 1200 minutes a month. Here's the 2008 demo:



I heard about it last night at a talk by Chuck Houston, executive director of Media X at Stanford University, in his presentation for the CIO Meetup group. And boy is Vidyo cool.

One of the biggest markets is anticipated to be boomers who want to keep tabs on their aging parents.

Vidyo's web site features this video showing the quality difference between its personal telepresence ap and "well known" (would that be Skype?) to show what a difference it makes to reduce blur and fuzzy images with crisp and clear ones. Vidyo supports HD as well as H.264-SVC (the latter automatically scales the streaming speed to the correct streaming settings for the end user's device).

Have a look and then visit the Vidyo web site for more details and a more engaging video here.

3 comments:

Kami said...

Hi Pam! I'm thrilled to see people get excited about Vidyo. Chuck House is Chairman of the board for Redmond, WA based CoroWare, the company that offers monthly telepresence subscriptions powered by Vidyo's technology. I work for CoroWare and telecommute from my home office in Indiana (thanks to our telepresence service). If you or your readers want a live demo and more info on monthly service plans, just give me a ring at 1-800-641-2676 ext. 728

Unknown said...

Hi Pam we agree - check out www.attendanywhere.com our events management platform now has the option of participating via Vidyo from 25c a minute...

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