This is a classic two person collaboration setup that will work in conjunction with a Video Conference and provide an added virtual graphics channel to the conference. The computers are connected via a serial (RS 232) connection provided by the user port on their Video Conferencing CODEC's. The CODEC takes care of compressing and multiplexing the Video, Audio and serial information.
Business Situation: One Company Two Locations
A large Investment banking firm has two locations and a live video cobferencing system but electronic presentations seem to lose something when they are sent thru the system and in some case the slides cant even be read.
Customer Need: High Quality Presentations
The firm needs a way to include high quality slide and multimedia presentations in its video conferences.
Solution: The Virtual Meeting Standard Edition
The Virtual Meeting allows electronic multimedia presentations to be displayed in their native environment (on a PC) in both locations of the conference simultaneously effectively adding another channel to a video conference. You can use this virtual channel for presentations, document sharing or just sketching, etc. Use of this virtual channel completely eliminates the possibility of scan conversion problems when interfacing computers to their video conferencing system. Since the Macintosh or Windows screen doesn't look as good after it is transformed to NTSC. Both ends of the connection can see the graphics on a Macintosh or Windows screen and not thru the compression of a CODEC.
The Virtual Meeting Standard Edition is available for Macintosh and Windows 3.1 and consists of the following software components for each user:
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