Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: sg04@gte.com (Steven Gutfreund) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Where Are We Going From Here? Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 89 17:57:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 368, message 7 of 11 Some of the things I have seen at Bellcore (The video hallway), at GTE (teleconferencing and the MUSE/Athena project we are jointly doing), and the recent splash at SIGGRAPH of Virtual environments leads me to the following guess: More bandwidth leads to more realistic telepresence. Currently POTS bandwidth models the remote person as 8K audio. Future systems will allow a complete "virutual reality" person to come and visit you in your office. Alternaitively, one can go and visit other locations. One can go visit another office, or visit home and take care of things you forgot (The X-10 home control system is latched into one's office system). Thus one can walk around one's kitchen (from the office) and start up dinner. (this would look very odd to someone standing in the kitchen. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund sgutfreund@gte.com GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA harvard!bunny!sgutfreund -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=