TECH: Avatars and video

PATRICK FOLEY ([email protected])
Mon, 11 Dec 95 06:18:51 UT

I have an idea which I've never heard discussed before, never mentioned, etc.
etc. I came up with it at the VR-SIG meeting at the Electronic Cafi.
How good is videoconferencing nowadays over standard phone lines? What I saw
at the E. Cafi wasn't gesat, but it seems to me that there are certain ways
that one *could* solve the limitations of the "avatar" problem. If you could
have a real-time videoconference screen pop up in cyberspace, you could
(theoretically) talk to people that way, assuming of course that you both had
a videocamera and the equipment to hook it up.
This seems to run into my problem of embedding non-VRML objects in
cyberspace, but you could have the window pop up, independant of your browser,
in a corner of the screen, with the command to "always stay on top". This sort
of thing worked with the Quadra I used to use in high school. Can it work with
VRML?
E-mail me and let me know why this won't work. (Nicely, plsase.)

Josh Ellis
[email protected]
"Video killed the radio star"
-- The Buggles

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