The year was 1964 and visitors to the Worlds Fair in New York have witnessed a new device called the Picturephone, the idea of joining the voice and video, 1 frame every 2 seconds was demonstrated in 1956 AT & T, the phone company founded by Alexander Graham Bell himself. Now, instead of just hearing a disembodied voice at the other end of the line, a caller can see the person as well.
The concept of videoconferencing emerged. Whole groups of people could communicate across time and space, the meeting room at the hospital, the exchange of information, ideas, and visual presentations from anywhere in n ' any time.
In 1970, the commercial service in downtown Pittsburgh and began Picturephone AT T and executives predicted that one million trust units Picturephone be in use in 1980. But with prices based on more than $ 160.00 per month, this new form of communication has been out of reach of most citizens. In addition, the equipment is bulky and slow, the controls are difficult to use, and the image was so small the picture could hardly be recognized. Work continues outside AT & T resulting in product release 1982 first compressing VC by Labs.
The system was huge and used enormous resources capable of tripping 15 amp circuit breakers. The selling price of this system of venture capital was $ 250,000 with a connection charge of $ 1,000 per hour. It was, however, the only system available until PictureTel VC works, a Delaware corporation, headquartered in Andover, Mass., has hit the market in 1986 with their substantially cheaper system $ 80,000 to $ 100 per hour lines.
Even in 1991, when PictureTel aligned with IBM to develop a cost smaller black and white video conferencing system, the price was well beyond the average user. The first PC based system has given a tag with a $ 20,000 price line charge $ 30.00 per hour, but a new chapter in the videoconference began.
Unfortunately, at this stage, a conference room with his equipment was required and not just the video conference participants have to move in the same place, the cost of renting the video conference room itself was exorbitant. The following year, AT & T again presented their new Videophone for the domestic market. Now, it costs 1500 USD, but the public was generally excluded from the new service.
In 1992, Macintosh opened with a video conferencing system called CU SeeMe v0.1 for personal computers. Although the first version has no audio, it was the best video system developed at this point. In 1993, the MAC program had multipoint capability, and in 1994, CU SeeMe for Macintosh is a video conferencing system with audio true. As good as this system was, it was limited to a Mac so that developers have worked day and night to create a CU SeeMe compatible with Windows, the most popular home-based operating.
This was accomplished with the April 1994 CU SeeMe for Windows, but it did not sound. Finally, the CU SeeMe v0.66b1 for Windows was released in August 1995 and now the speaker or speakers can not only see the person they spoke, they could make the safety and comfort of their own office or home. The boom began in most high tech companies joined in the creation of software and video conferencing facilities. In 1996, Microsoft NetMeeting v20.0b2 was released and the video became available to almost anyone with a computer at home.
1996 also saw the emergence of VocalTec Surf and call, the first band to plug phone in. Surf and call that allowed visitors to a website to do business, one to one, anywhere in the world as if Virtual saleswoman was in the room with the buyer so that families could connect to a Web site of the family and share more than images in real time.
Finally, in 2000, Samsung has released the first MPEG-4 streaming 3G video mobile phone. Streaming Media means that we consume have read, heard, read while it is delivered, read live, and today the price of videoconferencing depends on the need. The average person can now video conference in the world over for as low as $ 12.00 per month and the price of a phone for industry giants such as Yahoo and MSN have made the free service.