Check out this cool video from Knorr (the soup people) and Polycom videoconferencing.
How will pervasive broadband, virtual worlds, videoconferencing help flatten the world and bring geographically separated families (grandparents, siblings, traveling parents/kids) together more regularly?
If I had one of these rigs in every hotel room I went to, I wouldn't need to iChat/SkypeVideo my children every night when I am on the road, as this would be much better. We haven't dined together via video yet, although that is a good idea. A colleague in industry told me once that when he travels for work, he meets his wife in their virtual home in Second Life to hang out together.
That's a better ad for telepresence type technologies than it is for soup! I wonder how much this sort of thing is happening today?
Beyond intentional telepresence meetings, how do we get to serendipitous interactions like this?
Posted by: Ryan | April 15, 2007 at 08:34 AM