3D Video Conferencing – Polycom, it’s your move.
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by "Mitch" in Education, Industry, Video Conferencing
I was reading up on some of the latest products from Polycom which, if you aren’t familiar, is a fairly high-end video conferencing company. They have a system that allows users to view 3D graphical renderings on the fly and share with others remotely, such as schools and engineering firms. Having experience with Polycom systems in the higher education realm got me thinking about how stereo 3D could be applied to the delivery of remote presentations.
To put it simply 3D projectors could put the presenter / professor in front of the screen and in front of the class. They could interact with rendered materials in front of an audience. As distance learning splits into two camps: pre-recorded lectures, and live presentations, schools are starting to lean away from live presentations and are moving to on-demand lectures. This is where 3D could be useful for large classrooms and auditoriums.
All of this would require shooting with advanced cameras from a company such as Polycom. It would also require the presenter to stand in a location where the cameras could send a nearly full scale body projection to the other location. The other issue of course, is how students would view the content. 3D projectors are starting to hit the market, so finding the best eye-wear is important, until we are able to project without needing eye-wear anymore, which will be in the next 5 years. Putting people IN the classroom or on the stage, is the next step, and we aren’t that far away from creating a somewhat more personal experience in video conferencing.
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