My Video Conference

Video Confrencing
A Video Conference is holding a meeting via video; the holding of meetings in which the participants are in different places but are connected by audio and video links.

Videoconferencing should provide a complete simulation of a normal meeting environment, enabling both parties to see, hear and present material, just as if they were in the same room. Videoconferencing can speed up business process and procedures in the same way that the fax and the e-mail have revolutionized the way we share information.
Tangible benefits are most easily related to actual cost savings. The most obvious saving is the cost of travel and the cost of the time wasted during travel.

There are many companies who are actually being hired to host video conferencing such as “conferencegenie”. There are also freeware downloadable programs that help with setting up video conferencing.



Video conferencing can be very helpful due to its possibilities in communication. For example a person who is deaf can use sign language.

Videoconferencing also provides students with the opportunity to learn by participating in a 2-way communication platform. And teachers can be brought to classes in remote or isolated places. Students from different backgrounds can come together to learn about one another. Through videoconferencing students can visit another part of the world to speak with others, visit a zoo, a museum to learn.

The main thing you need for videoconferencing, is a video output and a microphone of some sort..

Social impacts of the use of video conferencing:

• Eye Contact: It is known that eye contact plays a large role in conversational turn-taking, perceived attention and intent, and other aspects of group communication. While traditional telephone conversations give no eye contact cues, videoconferencing systems are arguably worse in that they provide an incorrect impression that the remote interlocutor is avoiding eye contact. Telepresence systems have cameras located in the screens that reduce the amount of parallax observed by the users. This issue is also being addressed through research that generates a synthetic image with eye contact using stereo reconstruction. 
•  Appearance Consciousness: A second problem with videoconferencing is being on camera, with the video stream possibly even being recorded. The burden of presenting an acceptable on-screen appearance is not present in audio-only communication.

•  Signal latency: The information transport of digital signals in many steps needs time. In a telecommunicated conversation a better connection to stop lag. Therefore next to a stable large bandwidth, a small total round-trip time is another major technical requirement for the communication channel for interactive videoconferencing.