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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…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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(PRWEB) February 29, 2008 -- HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video encoders, is pleased to announce the appointment of Image Design Technology (IDT) based in Sydney, Australia as HaiVision's primary distributor for Australia and New Zealand. IDT has commenced regional marketing of HaiVision's complete product line and in March will be introducing HaiVision's revolutionary MAKO-HD technology.

The MAKO-HD has imperceptible latencies and pristine full motion image quality, making it ideal for the demands of telepresence, medical, and broadcast applications. With the lowest latency ever achieved by an H.264 codec system, the MAKO-HD provides highly interactive communication between remote sites.

Gerry Wilkins, IDT's Managing Director and founder says that there is no comparison to HaiVision's MAKO-HD on the market today.

"HaiVision's network video products are fundamental in enabling IDT to expand our position within the traditional AV segment," said Wilkins. "With HaiVision, we are able to better assist our partners in understanding and expanding their markets in sectors where there is a critical requirement for the highest quality of transmission such as in tele-medicine, interactive broadcast, IPTV and telepresence."

"IDT is investing in bringing together network video solutions for their local channel partners,' indicates Mirko Wicha, HaiVision's CEO. "The IDT team has been fully trained on our entire product range at our Montreal headquarters and we are excited that they have embraced our latest technology."

IDT have also brought Clinton Walker, an IT specialist, on board to support the HaiVision range. Clinton has a great deal of experience in the provision of IP based solutions and is available to support all of IDT's HaiVision customers.

HaiVision's new MAKO-HD codec for the hai1000 multi-stream encoder/decoder system delivers full frame rate high definition (HD) video with an unprecedented 70 milliseconds of end to end latency. The MAKO-HD supports standard resolutions up to 1080p and also supports real-time full frame rate encoding of computer source content (up to WXGA).

Plan to see HaiVision and the MAKO-HD at NAB booth SU11626. For complete information on the MAKO-HD and hai1000 products, please visit HaiVision's download center at http://www.haivision.com/account/downloads.

About HaiVision Systems Inc.:

HaiVision is the world's leading developer of performance video encoders and codec systems. HaiVision produces the lowest latency and highest quality standard definition and high definition video H.264 compression systems available. HaiVision's multi-stream systems are widely deployed as integrated within telepresence systems available from leading global vendors. HaiVision's systems are used in the most critical medical installations for video communications and transmission within hospital campuses and across countries. The most progressive educational institutions also use HaiVision technology for distance education - continuous presence network video systems linking specialized teachers with students throughout K-12 and higher education systems.

For further information, please contact:

Peter Maag                

HaiVision Systems Inc.    

Tel: (514) 334-5445            

Email: pmaag (at) haivision.com

Web: www.haivision.com

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