http://ideas.4brad.com/video-virtual-reunion Comments for "Video virtual reunion" en http://ideas.4brad.com/video-virtual-reunion <p>Videophones have not caught on, but I was imagining an interesting application for them &#8212; reunions. Recently a theatre company I was in had a reunion far away, and I couldn&#8217;t come, but I wanted somebody to bring in a laptop so we could run a SIP or Skype videophone there. It would not have given me a true sense of participation, but individuals I wanted to catch up on could have come to the video phone and chatted.</p> <p>Most conferencing applications assume there is going to be one big meeting with everybody talking together. That&#8217;s useful, but I can see a use for something that facilitates a lot of parallel one-on-one or small group conversations, for something like a reunion. In fact, one might be able to do a decent reunion entirely on the internet, or mostly on it.</p> http://ideas.4brad.com/video-virtual-reunion#comments Inventions Telecom Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:00:27 -0700 brad 543 at http://ideas.4brad.com