| On Wednesday 12th November 2008, Musion’s
very own Telepresence system orchestrated a show stopping Star Wars
style holographic communication in real time between London and
Berlin for the BlachReportDialog, a German live communications conference.
Ian O’Connell, Director of Musion Systems
appeared as a life-size holographic projection transmitted from
a studio in London to a live audience in Berlin. The reaction from
the audience was over whelming, after the presentation leaders of
the German communication industry swarmed the stage to get a closer
look at the technology. RTL, Germany’s leading commercial
television station, got so excited at the afternoon rehearsal, they
sent a journalist and crew to London and filmed their own show simultaneously
in London and Berlin.
This exciting demonstration was created with the
help of Masergy, who provided a communications network with exceptional
video transport enabling high definition images and sound. Masergy
also provided the London studio for the 3D transmission.
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“This demonstration
represents what is possible when you combine incredible video technology
with an advanced video network,” said John Dumbleton, SVP
and Managing Director of Masergy.
The possibilities of our new Holographic Telepresence system are
endless, as best described by Ian O’Connell himself:
“Most telecommunications companies see
it mostly for use in the boardroom but we think it can be far more
inclusive than that. Because it’s bi-directional both sides
interact in real time, so it could work in education where a teacher
can be transmitted to a class of two or three hundred but by using
touch screen technology, she could home in on any PC for one to
one with a particular student. Churches can transmit charismatic
preachers, prisoners can have visits with their families in their
own living rooms, engineers and inventors can collaborate, entertainers
can appear in nightclubs to launch a new album in 1,000 music stores
simultaneously or your front room and the possibilities for politicians
are obvious. What the implications are for dating I dread to think.
If you think the internet transformed everything, if you think You
Tube and MySpace are great, where will this go?”
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