December 12, 2007
Beam me up, Cisco
Speaking of 3D, three-dimensional holograms could soon take the place of two-dimensional images in teleconferencing, according to Cisco Systems. "We may be in a room where if I walk around behind you I can see the back of your head," said Marthin de Beer, head of Cisco’s emerging technologies group, at the networking company’s annual analyst meeting at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose on Tuesday. "I won’t be able to shake your hand but it will be a 3D rendering."
The new hologram technology is the result of a collaboration between Cisco and Musion, a UK-based company specialising in 3D projection. John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, and a holographic Mr de Beer demonstrated the technology before a rapt audience last month in Bangalore. You can see the YouTube video here:
Human Productivity Lab has more analysis here.
3D Holograms on conference calls? My, my whatever will they think of next?
I am intrigued as to where Cisco feels the future of teleconferencing is going… a while ago they were promoting the virtues of TelePresence - basically a very high-end and expensive system of using multiple cameras and plasma screens to create a virtual boardroom environment. Again, an interesting theory but prohibitively expensive - £150k were the estimated costs per installation (imagine linking 5 regional offices!). Cisco’s best client reference was when they secured some crude product placement for supplying equipment to the makers of ‘24′ so that it was featured in an episode….
I know that the environmental argument is raising the profile of video conferencing but the vast majority of users are relatively happy with the current technology and cost for good ol’ telephone based conferences. They get the job done and allow for people to call in from remote locations - add some web functionality to view documents and you will meet 99% of business requirements…
Needless to say I will be happy to eat my hologram is I am proved wrong!
Posted by: James B | December 12th, 2007 at 1:29 pm | Report this commentYour comment, whether right or wrong, those
holigrams can be beamed, so what are you going
to eat? Oxygen? Photons?
Not likely, but seriously you can’t always believe what someone tells you, like estimation
costs, etc. Sometimes they want to discourage
certain businesses with large estimations of
out of pocket costs.
Sometimes our governments are the only ones who
want to play with the soon to be also wireless
toys before they manipulate the market to be
more cost effective.
Cisco is just getting poised , waiting, for
the market shift. You got to throw a big boy
out their with a big price tag, so when they
introduce their generic over-the-seas competitors
prices, well everybody has got to have a starting
point. And anyway, Cisco probably has a piece of
the generic pie too. So its just a manipulation
game.
The government has been known to not be held
to any bid standard. They have been quite known to put/hand back a lot of our hard earned
TAX DOLLARS RIGHT BACK INTO THE GOOD OLE BOYS
POCKETS. My government has been quite known
to pay 3 times the going rate for supplies
or systems.
Holigrams are energy. Energy requires EM
fields. Electromagnetic fields give off electro
static discharges. Too much electro static discharges becoming harmful magnetic energy field environments. Magnetic energy is known to interfer with our human bodies protein and cell processes, and hormone productions.
Cisco has training programs for electro static
discharge or ESD for workstations.
Our homes, our towns have all around them all
the devices any work station would have.
Electricity, networking devices, wireless devices,
beam tracing devices,beam tracking devices, optic networking devices, etc.
The environment of most medias are trained
to tell about the advance technology advantages, BUT also trained to not discuss the DISADVANTAGES,
the harmful effects upon any type of environment,
whether inside or outside these advance technologys, WHICH ALL ARE USING THAT WIRELESS
PATHWAY, HOW THAT SAME WIRELESS PATHWAY IS
HARMING ALL ENVIRONMENTS.
That kind of talk would not be the kind of
talk that raises stocks, finacially speaking.
Scotty, hit the electrostatic discharge
button, and BEAM ME UP and beam up/heat up the environment around me and the world where we ALL live/work/play/go to school ESD environments.
Financial beats out the harm of the environment
Posted by: dboots | December 15th, 2007 at 2:38 am | Report this commenteach and every time.
Cisco actually has off-site training too for companies. I will comment later when I learn more next month when they come
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