Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing

Video conferencing is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact through two ways video and audio transmission simultaneously. It has also been called visual collaboration & is a type of group ware. Video conferencing differs from video phone calls in that it’s designed to serve a conference rather than individuals. It is an intermediate form of video telephony first developed by AT&T during early 1970 using the picture phone technology. The use of video conferencing facilitates for the conversation between two people in private offices or more than two people in larger room at different sites. Besides the audio & video transmission of meeting activities, video conferencing can be used to share documents, computer displayed information & white board.

 

Video conferencing has more impact in different discipline. Videoconferencing provides students with the opportunity to learn by participating in two-way communication forums. Furthermore, teachers and lecturers worldwide can be brought to remote or otherwise isolated educational facilities. In this way a student from remote area or any place of the world can get knowledge information from any place in the world.

 Videoconferencing is a highly useful technology for real-time telemedicine and telenursing applications, such as diagnosis, consulting, transmission of medical images, etc... With videoconferencing, patients may contact nurses and physicians in emergency or routine situations; physicians and other paramedical professionals can discuss cases across large distances. Rural areas can use this technology for diagnostic purposes, thus saving lives and making more efficient use of health care money.

Video conferencing can enable distant persons to participate in business meetings on short notice with time and money savings.  Videoconferencing is also currently being introduced on online networking websites, in order to help businesses form profitable relationships quickly and efficiently without leaving their place of work.

Press videoconferencing permits international press conferences via videoconferencing over the Internet. Journalists can participate on an international press conference from any location, without leaving their offices or countries. They need only be seated by a computer connected to the Internet in order to ask their questions to the speaker.