October 24, 2003

Videoconferencing on the City Scale

Citizens and visitors to London and Austria will be able to interact with each other via a pair very large videoconferencing units being installed in public spaces in both cities. Wired mag reports:
video screen mock-up An Austrian firm is developing a giant video-conferencing system that will be deployed in public spaces in London and Vienna next year, allowing people in the two cities to meet and talk eye-to-eye. Standing in front of the 10-foot-high, cylindrical TV screen is like looking directly into the heart of a foreign city, its inventors say.
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