While I write here mostly about technology, my interest has always been in the social impacts of all this communication technology. Here on the Today show was a fascinating story of someone who is blind using VoIP (and specifically Skype) to allow him to “see” courtesy of a remote person seeing his view and telling him what is there.
Fascinating…
P.S. Thanks to Chaim Haas for passing this along…
Interesting to read this however I cannot imagine the quality of the stream would be that good & depending on the broadcast resolution there is going to be a delay of up to 3 seconds through encoding etc – which kind of makes this news feed a bit unbelievable especially as the video is showing the blind person riding a bike – taking the delay in mind + the time for the person at the other end the stream to respond – I think its early days for this technology but it will improve as processor/internet speeds increase. We specialise in building high definition business video streams. You can see a test stream during our working hours by clicking on the camera at the top of our webpage – http://www.callquality.co.uk/?page=business_video_streaming.
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