{"id":12066,"date":"2010-12-03T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=12066"},"modified":"2010-12-06T09:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T14:25:53","slug":"bell-labs-super-virtual-conferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/12\/03\/bell-labs-super-virtual-conferencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Labs&#8217; Super Virtual Conferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2010\/1220\/technology-bell-labs-virtual-videoconferencing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2010\/1220\/technology-bell-labs-virtual-videoconferencing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12157\" title=\"SuperVirtualConferencing-12-2-1-\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SuperVirtualConferencing-12-2-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SuperVirtualConferencing-12-2-1-.jpg 422w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SuperVirtualConferencing-12-2-1--110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gee Rittenhouse sees a  future in which an executive running late for a meeting pulls his car to  the side of the road and calls into a videoconference. He sets his  phone on the dash and adjusts the settings so his image appears to the  others as if he were in the same boardroom with everyone else. He chats  with the people onscreen and pulls up a virtual PowerPoint, flipping  through slides with a gestural swipe through the air. When it&#8217;s over,  these people separated by thousands of miles go back to their physical  surroundings having spent the last half hour feeling like they were a  few feet apart in a conference room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This vision is becoming  reality at Bell Labs, where Rittenhouse is research chief.  Alcatel-Lucent&#8217;s innovation shop, the same one that brought you the  Picturephone in the 1960s under AT&amp;T,\u00a0 recently unveiled its great-grandchild, an application called <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> immersive communications. It combines all the &#8220;realities&#8221; into one:  physical, virtual and augmented (reality superimposed with sound or  graphics).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Gee Rittenhouse sees a future in which an executive running late for a meeting pulls his car to the side of the road and calls into a videoconference. 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