They call it Viewport. Some time ago Microsoft published a white paper about this new product intended to provide “a videoconferencing experience that creates the illusion that the remote participants are in the same room with you”, This does sound familiar. See my first blog on this subject dated May 2006. Shortly after my first blog Wainhouse Research produced a segment report on this subject. Did I inspire some readers of that blog to investigate and start research on this subject?
It is clear that holoferencing is not a forgotten subject. Some progress is made on the development of the required technology and prerequisites became viable or available in the mean time. So what will it take to experience the first real implementations of holoferencing? Unfortunately 'Scotty' will not experience the first edition of this new frontier 'where no man has gone before'. But will we live to see it?
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