A couple of weeks ago, The BrainYard posted an article I wrote entitled Get Collaborators to ‘Touch and Feel’ Unstructured Data:

“I don’t want to see your face!” doesn’t sound like the most collaborative way to talk to someone, but it just might be. If you’re stuck in a videoconference staring at your remote collaborators, but what you really need is to see their data or work together on a whiteboard, what do you do?

The tools at our disposal today are lacking in this scenario. Sure, we could jump over to the conference room whiteboard and start writing, but that leaves our remote collaborators squinting; and apart from asking us to verbalize what we just wrote up, they can’t do anything. It’s an unsatisfying state of affairs, which is why so few of us do it.

Creating the possibility of working together effectively on a whiteboard, while scattered across time zones, is the long-running vision of Rafi Holtzman and his team at Luidia. Luidia’s eBeam technology lets users convert any writable surface–a whiteboard, definitely, but also a window, a mirror, or a table–into a shared collaborative canvas.

Read more: The BrainYard