Videoconferencing: Image is All
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Historically, we all know that videoconferencing has been a bit of an underachiever. The brave new technology of the early 1980s, which allowed you to see the person you were talking to albeit out of sync with what either of you was saying promised much but never completely delivered.
Admittedly there was a vast improvement in the technology and videoconferencing soon began to approximate conventional facetoface communication, but as an industry it reached a plateau some years ago. The idea seemed a winner, but there were...