It looks like this new generation of video conferencing applications are quite expensive and require much more bandwidth than the average home or office has.

Which is exactly where we were 10 years ago.

While there were several "high quality" expensive video conferencing applications, using bundles of ISDN lines and costing tens of thousands of dollars, some of you will probably remember playing with CU-SeeMe and little spherical black and white cameras. It was kinda working, but the quality was very poor. Back then we were all saying that "in the future", with more bandwidth, better compression and faster processors we would have reached video conferencing nirvana, for the rest of us.

Sounds like we're not there yet.

Tags: Video conferencing