First Come, First Serve Basis Free Video Conferencing for the Rest of Us

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What’s the difference between Video Conferencing and Telepresence?

Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.

Why Telepresence now?

Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.

Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?

There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…

What are “real” savings of Telepresence?

Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.

You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!

Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!

Ride on the "Next Plane of Existence" TM

Seoul, Korea (PRWEB) July 11, 2007 -- Zenitum Entertainment Computing ('Zenitum') announces new free video conferencing service with Web 2.0 spirit, PalBee (http://www.palbee.com).

Palbee.com offers unlimited free sessions of one hour video conferencing for maximum of five video attendees. PalBee currently provides a whiteboard, text chat, images and PowerPoint slides sharing features. Above all, since PalBee was developed using Flash technology, both PC and Mac users are able to engage in video conferencing without downloading or installing hassles whatsoever.

However, there is one catch. Current larva (beta) version supports only 10 video conference sessions at the same time, hence "first come, first serve." It would be upgraded to support up to 50 simultaneous sessions in mid-July. "We will continuously increase the capacity and bandwidth multiple folds to support more users," said Albert Kim, CEO and Founder of Zenitum, "Even then, free users have to come and create conference sessions first come, first serve basis."

For upcoming version, PalBee offers several new features such as session recording, and Web 2.0 widgets playing the recorded sessions on personal blogs or other social media sites. Also, billing mechanisms, including donation, would be added soon for "Customers to Customers (C2C)" knowledge marketplace such as tutoring, counseling or professional instructions.

"We originally developed PalBee for internal uses," Albert added. "We've invited professors and professionals around the world for getting lectures on advanced software engineering topics without spending too much money. I think many would have same benefits from our free video conferencing."

He also noted that finding individual instructors or tutors is not easy. However, since increasing number of people engage in online learning, or e-learning, C2C knowledge transactions would gradually increase likewise.

To sign up and start a video conference session, visit http://www.palbee.com

ABOUT ZENITUM ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, INC.

Zenitum is an entertainment solution developer based on computer vision technologies, and headquartered in Seoul, Korea. For three years, Zenitum has been developing unique services for both mobile and web such as "Face Beauty Surgery" and "Face Fortune Reading" based on face and facial feature recognition technology. Recently, Zenitum is launching Web 2.0 services harnessing its proprietary technologies.

For more information, please contact

Zenitum Entertainment Computing, Inc.

Albert Kim

CEO & Founder

+82-11-229-5083az

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