99 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, August 5-7, 1999. Oregon State University Video Conference Presentation Doborolo and Uzgalis demonstrated a video conferencing technology, and they presented it as a way to communicate with people who are far away.
Virtual presents is a good thing, but actual presents is better.
They explained how they were using this technology to do distance education. A RealPlayer demonstration was given, and these sorts of presentations are intended to hilight the reading material. He emphasized you have to need the technology before you should use the technology. Be careful not to use the technology unless it is really beneficial. A description of SMIL, a scripting language similar to HTML, was then given.