Left-to-right: Dennis, Irene, Chad, Robert, and David

David Coleman, the Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies moderated a panel entitled From the Labs, with some vendors showing what is new and interesting from various vendor research labs.

Bob McCandless, BrightCom
– Goals for telepresence … want to be indistinguishable from reality.
– Challenges … cost, quality, bandwidth, gaze correction
– Perspective corrected viewing … requires multiple camera … but it requires a huge-amount of bandwidth.
– After TelePresence is immersive video conferencing … will be fully rendered to look like your own office
– Will require some new screen technologies
– Research by Microsoft … a real person vs. real time rendering
– Going to a Second Life island … and take real-time video into Second Life

– Once you move into a rendered world, you can do interesting things. You haven’t got to photo-realism, but that technology is coming.
– Rendering an immersive world solves the bandwidth problem.
– Chad was helping Bob from BrightCom.

Question 1. Can we talk via audio conferencing in the BrightCom thing?
Bob … yes, it is a majo

Irene Greif, IBM Research
Talking about Many Eyes, the power of collaborative visualization. See Many Eyes.

Why am I showing you this? There were 10s of thousands of blogs about the initial work on this.
– intuitive and dynamic user experience
– naturally draws up different perspectives … people type in their own names first … so people find things

Generated through to social data analysis … generalizing from Baby Name Wizard to Many Eyes.
– many easy to use visualization tools
– discussion through bookmarks and annotation
– individuals have a personal incentive … users upload data for their own use

Many Eyes web site … visualizations to explore, data sets, upload new data sets, various types of visualizations

Dennis Browne, SAP
Presented on widgets for the enterprise; but I was distracted doing something else. Sorry Dennis.