Desktop Videoconferencing

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is a type of conferencing in which video cameras and microphones capture sight and sound for transmission over a communications network. Videoconferencing makes it possible to conduct meetings with participation of groups who are hundreds and thousands of miles apart (Senn, 1998).
As Joseph Jesson an information technology consultant at Amoco in Chicago put it the notion of was highlighted at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York. It is now 1999 and the promises of upgraded are still on the rise. In the year of 2000 there will still be promises of upgrades as it has been with computers. As Videoconferencing has made it to it has continued to improve and to grow slowly but surely. Slowly because Videoconferencing has been used in a large conference room sized environment over the past decade and the cost were outrageous, putting a damper in its growth rate.
The failure of early videoconferencing systems was not not only technological or economic in nature, ...

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in video communication technologies. We have suggested that the reasons for failure in the 1960s and 1970s were a combination of social, economic, psychological and technological factors. Overly simplistic assumptions about the cost saving advantages of the technology and the focus on video as a means to replace face-to-face communication led to disappointment among early adopters. In the 1990s, the field has changed radically. Technical capabilities and capacities, in terms of hardware, software and communication networks far surpass the first wave systems. In addition, the economic realities of the 1990s - such as the extended recession and the globalization of the economy - are driving ...

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