Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and current Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Ash Carter visited the VSee office. They were there to attend a meeting with Milton, who was away on a business trip, over VSee High-Definition Video Calling with Application Sharing. Visit the VSee…
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Last September, Frost & Sullivan came up with a new way to measure the “collaborativeness” of visual collaboration technology. It looks like a plug for Magor Telecollaboration dressed in pseudo-scientific language to me; but, it does suggest a quantitative way of analyzing whether a collaborative product is worth its return…
Over the last few weeks of working at VSee, I’ve been realizing that VSee is more than just a videoconferencing tool. It’s a video collaboration tool. Of course, it can do the things that videoconferencing does, but on a much more dynamic and work-friendly scale. It’s the difference between a…
Working remotely can feel like you’re always on the periphery of things, lost and forgotten by managers and coworkers who can’t see you. So it’s great when people come up with better ways of giving remote workers more presence. One fascinating idea that makes use of videoconferencing technology is the…
Milton was invited to lunch with Doug Rand last weekend. Doug Rand is the Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology and the architect of Startup America.
One of the big successes in videoconferencing has been its use in judicial courts. The federal courts have long been using the technology for such things as arraignments, bail hearings, post-conviction hearings, and appellate court arguments. Washington and Lee University Law school faculty Aaron Haas notes that in 1972 an…
“Boredom is necessary for creativity” —Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow
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Cisco’s foray into the consumer market has proved too challenging for the networking giant. This morning, Cisco Systems announced that it would cut 550 jobs as part of its plan to exit some of its consumer business. This includes closing the video recording device division which manufactures the once-great Flip…
Milton discussed in some earlier posts the importance of smiling and eye contact in facilitating video mediated communication. At the heart of these issues is the issue of building video trust. The Research On Video Trust The good news is that according to video trust studies, people using only video…
This was made possible by two of our very own, Yuen-Lin Tan and Eric Angel, who spend their free time volunteering for i-ACT (Interactive Activism). Yuen-Lin Tan joined the i-ACT team in 2005, answering founder Gabriel Stauring’s call for assistance with the technological aspects of the first i-ACT mission to Chad.…
VSee is a participant at the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Hangzhou, China. This is the first time the conference has been held outside of North America. Besides being an attendee at this conference, Milton Chen, Founder & CEO of VSee, had the opportunity to present…
VSee participated in the Sales 2.0 Conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco earlier this month. The team (both in person and remote) had a great time introducing VSee to the experienced and field-seasoned sales leaders. We were really encouraged that they loved how VSee would help…
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Skype and GoToMeeting (Citrix) are banding together to try and shore up each other’s weaknesses as collaborative business tools. The former has begun asking $9 a month for group calling but has a limited screenshare and no collaborative tools; the latter charges even…
One of the reasons we continue to be so gung ho about video calling is because studies in the field of communication have demonstrated the importance of nonverbal communication in interpersonal communications, many of which are expressed through the visual channel. For instance, one thing you can’t express very well…
I know I’m going to sound cheesy when I say this, but I was really touched and impressed by Sonnenwald et al’s (2002) patience and determination to truly use videoconferencing technologies to increase collaboration. Even though their action research project was with large groups (30-110 people) in academic institutions, they…
